It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

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

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.

If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.

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.