We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.

Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people.... We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel.

Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

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!

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do.