We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

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!