[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

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.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

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.

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

It turned out that it was difficult to stay cross with a man when you could see his nipples.

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.