Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.
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’s knees”.
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good...
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person’s good.
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
The greatness of work is inside man.
It’s too early for a Polish pope.
Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.
The obligation to earn one’s bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.