You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Thank God [Donald Trump] said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' At least I am a human person. As to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

[Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.