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

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.

China is a great nation that offers the world a great culture, so many good things. I love the Chinese people and I hope there is the possibility of having good relations. We're in contact, we talk, we are moving forward but for me, to have as a friend a great country like China, which has so much culture and has so much opportunity to do good, would be a joy.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.