"I’ll tell you something. I don’t watch television. It’s been 25 years since I’ve watched television. It's not a vow, but I decided it on a certain moment when I felt that it didn't do me any good."

"It is not a good thing when priests become rigid. Rigidity is a sign of something bad. It is a sign of a lack of freedom, and that is a sign of spiritual worldliness."

"Climate change is a global problem with serious implications, environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods."

"The Lord always forgives, always. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness."

"The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person."