Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.