If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.