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

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'