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.

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

A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

Worrying is a full-time job -- I wish it paid better!

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.