The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.