That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.