Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much.

Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

[Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.