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

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

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

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Men and women will retain their sex in heaven