The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.