The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

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.

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.

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

Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.

Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy.

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

Fear is choosing the safe course

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.