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

Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.

When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever.

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.