To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.
The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.
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The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.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.