Oreste Benzi

"I am addressing those concerned directly: there is no right to recognition of same-sex unions. Homosexuality can be corrected and the psychological deviation that is inherent in it can be removed. I am appealing to you to save the identity of natural and Christian marriage. Only you can save it by rejecting what is not your own."

"Acquired homosexuals are the effeminate men mentioned in Scripture who are not allowed to enter the kingdom of heaven. Acquired homosexuality can be overcome and, being a vice, must be removed at all costs."

"The collapse of the parameters for accepting oneself as male in today's society completes the picture of factors that create conditions favourable to homosexuality."

"There are certain negative influences in today's society that lead young people to drugs and keep them there because they take away their sense of responsibility, teaching them to do whatever they want, to have everything immediately and at any cost, instead of encouraging obedience to fundamental values."

"Prostitution comes from the heart, but it is also from the heart that good can begin."

"It is the same logic that leads to abortion: if the child is a nuisance, it is not accepted, it is eliminated; and the citizens pay the costs. But the child is a person, a unique word of God, with its own history. [...] But then what is the difference between the Mafia, the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta, who kill their opponents because they are a nuisance, and those who argue that it is acceptable to kill someone who is a nuisance in a premeditated murder?"

"Men must understand that if they go to prostitutes, they are contributing to the enslavement of these girls and to the growth of criminal organisations."

"The important thing is to work so that, from childhood, people can nurture the infinite love that is present within each of us."

"The girls forced into prostitution on the streets made me understand the beauty of chastity and the deep need for a relationship with God the Father."

"To stand tall, you need to know how to kneel in prayer."

"(About the opening of the holy door) This is a great opportunity that God is offering us: let us all welcome it. A few days ago, I was in Loreto with Don Oreste Benzi and three elderly priests who were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their ministry. One of them said: 'The year 2000 is coming: what do you want to change? Don q:it:Oreste Benzi looked at us and replied: “There are five of us: if we five change, a lot will change”. So, we must take these words as an example: each of us can do something, each of us can give a little light, because each of us is an open window through which God's light can pass."