Antonio María Rouco Varela

Varela (september 2006)

Antonio María Rouco Varela (20 August 1936 –) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxillary bishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and the Archdiocese of Madrid and as the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.

Quotes

• The renewed consecration of Spain to the Sacred Heart will not bring forth abundant fruit of life and of witness of Christian love without holy priests.” Spain, the Spain of today, needs many holy priests according to the heart of Christ!
  • Cardinal Rouco re-consecrates Spain to the Sacred Heart (23 June 2009) Catholic News Agency

• When there is hostility towards the family, then not only it is misunderstood, but it is mistreated; so the need to affirm its faith and its content of natural and supernatural reality, becomes a primary and fundamental postulate in the evangelizing mission of the Church.
  • "We are faced with a family and faith emergency ": On Sunday a demonstration in defense of the Christian family (28 December 2012) Fides News Agency