Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit