Occupation: Priest Birth: May 18, 1920 Death: April 2, 2005
The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which he….
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation of all peoples. May th….
The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of ….
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relat….
There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and ….
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace….
Make your lives intensely Eucharistic..
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetab….
The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy ….
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of t….
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny..
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man..
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression an….
Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine.
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ..
But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the mat….
The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let ….
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, ….
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it d….
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete.