The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman. ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!