Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.

I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

My people are poor and I am one of them.