Dalam pesan Ramadan dan Id al‑Fitr, ia menulis:
“Do we want to be simple co‑workers for a better world or genuine brothers and sisters, bearing common witness to God’s friendship with all humanity?”
Dalam wawancara saat diangkat sebagai Prefek, ia juga menegaskan:
“Diversity is a richness… Instead, it should always be an opportunity to build bridges. Interreligious dialogue is not simply a dialogue between religions but between believers called to bear witness to the beauty of believing in God and practicing fraternal charity and respect.”
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Adapun nama-nama yang ditunjuk adalah sebagai berikut:
*Cardinals Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M., Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Israel;
*Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D., archbishop of Tōkyō, Japan;
*Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv., archbishop of Teheran-Ispahan of the Latins, Iran;
*Frank Leo, archbishop of Toronto, Canada;
*Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham, United Kingdom;
*Archbishop Mitchell Thomas Rozanski of Saint Louis, United States of America;
*Archbishop Yagop Mourad of Homs of the Syrians, Syria;
*Archbishop Vira Arpondratana of Bangkok, Thailand;
*Bishop Joseph Chau Ngoc Tri of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Vietnam;