If I am elected, I will flee from the Conclave. - Cristóbal López Romero

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?

Ours is an unassuming Church -- we are less than 0.1% of the population -- but it seeks to be significant, and it desires to be a sign and sacrament of the Kingdom of God. To live dialogue on a daily basis, the Christian must know and feel himself as the ‘sacrament of encounter. The whole local Church must ask itself how to concretely live its mission. Our Church is a Church of encounter and dialogue. Yet, although we have made a good start, we can do much more. or example, how to live Islamic-Christian dialogue after the pope’s visit, after Fratelli tutti, after the document of the Universal Fraternity signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam al Tayyeb?

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)