Birth: April 16, 1927
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….
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover….
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception….
The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of….
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of….
The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culmin….
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and n….
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men….
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time..
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sin….
Do not be afraid to say “yes” to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will....
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands..
Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself..
Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first mean….
Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilmen….
In the eyes of the unrighteous it appeared that God did not intervene and that His Son died, but for believers it was at that precise moment that tru….
I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed ….
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man ….
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what ….
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes..
An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others..