Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. Wh….

True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Ma….

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace..

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….

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian..

To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, a….

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obe….

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven..

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest..

The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right….

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..

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….

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! ….

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has fa….

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the examp….

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as ….

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….

It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is th….

Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spread….

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses..

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind..