Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

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

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may learn from his example to be meek and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interests but those of God.

To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

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

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