I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.

War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.