The Family that prays together, stays together.

It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.

The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.