The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.