"We must not be afraid to be a bit messy, to be a bit untidy. The Church should not be a neat and tidy thing."

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

"Some people think that, excuse me if I use the word, in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits, but no."

"The powerful of the earth, when they do not want to see problems, they cover them up. They hide them."

"The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life."