Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

When we don't preach the LORD, we preach the Devil, and when we preach worldliness, we preach the Devil

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much.