Birth: April 16, 1927
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits..
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them..
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved..
A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to bec….
The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life..
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow awa….
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged..
We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that pro….
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we g….
It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake..
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds….
Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist..
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ..
It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our ….
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love..
Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special ….
Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life..
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows ….
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation..
Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a so….
The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see in the Gospel, those w….