No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

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

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.