Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

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.

The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.