I don't like my name appearing on the papal candidate lists. - Cristóbal López Romero

As quoted in Vaticano – Cardinal López Romero, SDB: “Per me Papa Francesco è stato un padre, un modello, un amico”, Agenzia Info salesiana (in Italian; May 2, 2025)

I suffer a lot when, in Spain, some people, after having participated in the Eucharistic celebration, ask me, in a spiteful tone, not to send any more migrants from Morocco. I ask myself: how is it possible to go to Mass and feel almost no compassion for the men, women and children who are suffering?

Emigrating is a human right, but before that right to migrate, everyone also has the right to stay where they were born and where they have developed their lives.