Sister Helen Prejean: “It took me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”

Cardinal Seán O’Malley: “Christ is the light of the world, and our task is to bring that light to those who are suffering in darkness.”

After failing to say ‘Rohingya’ in Burma (despite using the term in the past), today in Bangladesh, Pope Francis said, “The presence of God today is also called Rohingya.” Meeting with Rohingya refugees, Pope Francis asked for forgiveness for the world’s indifference to their persecution.

Cardinal Seán‏ O’Malley: “Thanksgiving is at the core of our being. Everything we have, that we are, is a gift from God. May gratitude remain at the center of our thoughts and lives and may God bless those who go without.”

Pope Francis: “The greater the sin, the greater the love that must be shown by the Church to those who repent.”

Pope Francis: “Global action is needed in order to reduce pollution and at the same time promote development in poorer countries.”

Pope Francis: “Only a distorted ideological form of religion can think that justice is done in the name of the Almighty by deliberately slaughtering defenseless persons.”