All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls... Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.