Occupation: Priest Birth: May 18, 1920 Death: April 2, 2005
Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love ….
No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he….
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal s….
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers..
I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who conf….
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice..
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recogniz….
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it..
As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as b….
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of ….
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, ju….
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better..
Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion..
Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on….
Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors..
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvatio….
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole..
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?.
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual p….
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to ….
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own….