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.

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

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care, until Christ is ''fully formed'' in us... Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us?

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