Occupation: Priest Birth: May 18, 1920 Death: April 2, 2005
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope..
In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact….
Have no fear of moving into the unknown..
...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?.
It is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every generation of America….
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of ….
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history..
Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exis….
The worst prison would be a closed heart..
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society ….
In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of ….
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a ….
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expressi….
While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassio….
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others..
The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and onl….
The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvatio….
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, ex….
A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform..
The New York Marathon: a fantastic event..
The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence im….