God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.