To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.