Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.

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

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.