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.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

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.

The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.