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

Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.