My writings on social justice have led people to say I’m Peronist. But in the hypothesis that I do have Peronist political concepts, what would be wrong with that?" ... What I do not do, and nor should the Church do, is party politics."
I did what I could with the age I had and my few contacts to shield people from abduction,
I want the Church going out on the street,
How I’d love a poor Church, for the poor!"
Buona sera … it seems that my brother-cardinals have gone looking for me almost to the ends of the earth."
Being homosexual is not a crime, it’s a human condition,
It was above all my grandmother who marked my path, speaking of Jesus and teaching the catechism,
I was never the same and walked out with the knowledge that I was going to be a priest,
The tempest lays bare all our prepackaged ideas and forgetfulness of what nourishes our people’s souls,
It was then that the name Francis appeared,
I was happy to see him yesterday, though he was obviously very ill. But I’ll always remember him for the ... homily he gave in the very early days of COVID,
Since the start of the twentieth century, Christian missions generally achieved widespread successes in Africa, and the churches they planted built massively on those original successes.”
We find ourselves afraid and lost,
He would ask us how we were, what did we eat, did we have clean water, was anyone injured?"
A humble leader in tumultuous times,
An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,
He was a good man, worked hard, he loved the world, and it was an honor to do that,
The growing climate of anti-Semitism throughout the world is worrisome,
By about 2026, there will be as many Catholics in Africa as in Europe.”