Birth: September 26, 1897 Death: August 6, 1978
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons..
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long..
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought abou….
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune..
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particula….
The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way.... the Good News of the k….
The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move..
Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Chu….
We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God..
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind..
The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man ….
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is tha….
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardnes….
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past..
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with so….
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the out….
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the….
Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the fir….
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! ….
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor..
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live….