Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.

Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I like people to look like they're floating.

I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action.