The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world’s expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
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 communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
It’s better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
Freedom exists for the sake of love.
Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God’s perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
Mary’s role is to make Her Son Shine.
Never again war. Never again hatred and intolerance.