"The Lord Jesus promised that he would send his Spirit, the Comforter, to tell us what we must do at all times. And that presence has not been lacking throughout the history of the Church. It has always been there. When we have done wrong it is because we have not listened to his voice."

"The Church has always supported the freedom of her children, wherever they are."

"For us Americans, the principle of religious freedom is a basic. But as in any human relationship, it happens like in any dance, the moment I take a step forward, my partner takes one backwards, while the next time the opposite happens. It's the art of compromise, in its noblest sense, and it's a success of the common ground and the common good."

"From our own little Caribbean island the cry resounds: "I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church." This ecclesial and social event is a message and a challenge. We needn't wait for the leaders of nations to be reconciled or come to an agreement. We are already experiencing the reality of reconciliation and fraternal communion with our sister churches."

"We think that the Eucharist is the source and summit of the life of the Church and for this we do not abandon its essential importance."

"There is always dialogue that has to do with the life of the Church, with the pastoral work and also with the life of the nation, with the economic changes, the changes that society expects and that the Church has encouraged, supported and long waited for."

"The Church in Cuba is vital, but I don't think that vitality excludes difficulties, indeed I hold that vitality and difficulties are, in some way, complementary because difficulties demand effort and stir us from lethargy. I think that the difficulties experienced for many years in Cuba by the Church led us to use our pastoral imagination."

"There is no Christianity, there is no Catholic Church, without true worship of God in Spirit and in Truth, without worship there is no Catholic Church…If there is no prayer, there is no faith, if there is no worship of the true God, there is no growth in the faith. We are disciples of a one who was crucified. If the cross is not in our midst, if we do not live the cross, then we are simply not Christians."

"The man of today has serious difficulties in understanding that light is very necessary to find freedom and that freedom is imperative to value light."

"We are new to the Latin American context because our Church evangelised in a socio-political situation different from that on the rest of the Continent. Nevertheless she has never lost the mission which cannot be renounced, the mission to evangelise. The Church in Cuba developed this mission, We are here as disciples and missionaries of the Gospel to announce Jesus Christ. We feel more than ever before in harmony with the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean."

"We don't want anyone in society to be in danger because of these criminals, but we don't think that death is the answer. Killing them because they have killed would perpetuate the cycle of violence."