When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.