I don't want to overreach myself, but I would say that this expresses the essence of what I consider to be my standard at this time.

In the Church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.

In Jesus' life from the Father, in the immediacy and closeness of his association with him in prayer and indeed face to face, he is God's witness, through whom the intangible has become tangible, the distant has drawn near.

There is one thing we must not forget: it has always been the Mother who reached people in missionary situations and made Christ accessible to them. That is especially true of Latin America. Here, to some extent, Christianity arrived by way of Spanish swords, with deadly heralds.

Your commitment is an expression of pastoral concern for every human being who may never become a means, but must always remain an end.

proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

When you are studying theology, your intention is not to learn a trade but to understand the faith, and this presupposes, as we said a while ago, using the words of Augustine, that the faith is true, that, in other words, it opens the door to a correct understanding of your own life, of the world and of men.

Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity - not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.

The real ""action"" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.