I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.

How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.

Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

You cannot insult the faith of others.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.