To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

Some can go further than others.