The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

We cannot allow the Mediterranean Sea to become a vast cemetery.

In many quarters we encounter a general impression of weariness and ageing, of a Europe which is now a 'grandmother', no longer fertile and vibrant.