When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

God shows up with surprises.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.