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

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.