Occupation: Priest Birth: May 18, 1920 Death: April 2, 2005
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well..
The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. Th….
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must d….
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the buildi….
The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion is not a concern of the Christian ….
When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really maki….
Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based ….
We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ag….
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way..
Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love..
Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign….
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the commun….
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving….
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a dange….
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial..
True living is not found in one's self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful….
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires..
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom..
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of ….
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one….