If You Believe In Peace It Is

Priestly Celibacy Has Been Guarded By The Church For Centuries As A Brilliant Jewel, And Retains Its Value Undiminished Even In Our Time When The Outlook Of Men And The State Of The World Have Undergone Such Profound Changes.

If You Want Peace, Work For Justice.

We Consider Christmas As The Encounter, The Great Encounter, The Historical Encounter, The Decisive Encounter, Between God And Mankind. He Who Has Faith Knows This Truly; Let Him Rejoice.

The Work Of Art, Just Like Any Fragment Of Human Life Considered In Its Deepest Meaning, Seems To Me Devoid Of Value If It Does Not Offer The Hardness, The Rigidity, The Regularity, The Luster On Every Interior And Exterior Facet, Of The Crystal.

Without Repeating Everything That We Have Already Mentioned, It Is Appropriate First Of All To Emphasize The Following Point: For The Church, The First Means Of Evangelization Is The Witness Of An Authentically Christian Life, Given Over To God In A Communion That Nothing Should Destroy And At The Same Time Given To One's Neighbor With Limitless Zeal. As We Said Recently To A Group Of Lay People, “modern Man Listens More Willingly To Witnesses Than To Teachers, And If He Does Listen To Teachers, It Is Because They Are Witnesses.