It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

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

I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist.

If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.