I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many do not want to even think about it... Many people believe the change that has taken place in recent decades was set in motion by the emancipation of women. But this argument is not valid, it is an insult, a form of misogyny.

From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.