Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

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.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.