The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

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 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 Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all the future.

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.

A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.

I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.