To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.
All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.
Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.
The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.
Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God – are impossible.
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.
There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved.
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
The power of sacred music increases the honor given to God by the Church in union with Christ, its Head. Sacred music likewise helps to increase the fruits which the faithful, moved by the sacred harmonies, derive from the holy liturgy. These fruits, as daily experience and many ancient and modern literary sources show, manifest themselves in a life and conduct worthy of a Christian.
60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of unity, as well as an effective antidote for any corruption of doctrine truth.
The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.