The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.