It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.