I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness