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

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

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.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.