It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility

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.

Find the Lord, find the saints of the times, but also find the not canonized, simple persons who are really in the heart of the Church.

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

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.