States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain it because the word 'people' is not a logical category, it's a mythical category.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.