On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

Let us not grow tired of knocking at God's door. Let us go to the heart of God through Mary, our whole life, every day, knocking at the door of God's heart! Mary prays - prays together with the community of disciples, and teaches us to have full faith in God, in his mercy. This is the power of prayer!

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

At the first meeting I had with the (Italian) bishops in May 2013, one of the three things I said was: with the Italian government you're on your own. Because the pope is for everybody and he can't insert himself in the specific internal politics of a country. This is not the role of the pope, right?

The right to life is the first among human rights.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.