The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He conducted all the investigations, and went on, went on, went on, until he couldn't go any further in the execution.

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?