As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.