The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.