Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the l...
In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And we must as...
In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary - or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it - is tre...
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.
This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes
The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts...
The mystery of the Incarnation is very simply that of God’s asking a woman freely to give Him a human nature.
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own...
The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends...
Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them...
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction,...
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Love needs no reasons. Sex asks science to defend it; love never asks Why? It says, I love you. Love is its own reason.