Occupation: Priest Birth: May 18, 1920 Death: April 2, 2005
The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Eve….
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us..
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved..
Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your wor….
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ..
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians..
I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people l….
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist.
Freedom exists for the sake of love..
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until….
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven..
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history..
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition….
Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look on….
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death..
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the comm….
It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly..
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the fac….
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest thin….
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wo….
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it repr….