Birth: September 26, 1897 Death: August 6, 1978
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy..
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm..
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this de….
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see..
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will..
If you want peace, work for justice..
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer..
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the ….
Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice..
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law..
Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so that publi….
If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase..
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuin….
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?.
If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore ….
A dimple on the chin, the devil within..
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?.
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be ….
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven, is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places o….
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to….
In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfo….