You, Too, Be Courageous! The World Needs

While It Is True That The Taking Of Life Not Yet Born Or In It's Final Stages Is Sometimes Marked By A Mistaken Sense Of Altruism And Human Compassion It Cannot Be Denied That Such A Culture Of Death, Taken As A Whole, Betrays A Completely Individualistic Concept Of Freedom, Which Ends Up By Becoming The Freedom Of "the Strong" Against The Weak Who Have No Choice But To Submit.

Marriage Is An Act Of Will That Signifies And Involves A Mutual Gift, Which Unites The Spouses And Binds Them To Their Eventual Souls, With Whom They Make Up A Sole Family - A Domestic Church.

To Predispose Our Mind To Welcome The Lord Who, As We Say In The Creed, One Day Will Come To Judge The Living And The Dead, We Must Learn To Recognize Him As Present In The Events Of Daily Life. Therefore, Advent Is, So To Speak, An Intense Training That Directs Us Decisively Toward Him Who Already Came, Who Will Come, And Who Comes Continuously.

The Historical Experience Of Socialist Countries Has Sadly Demonstrated That Collectivism Does Not Do Away With Alienation But Rather Increases It, Adding To It A Lack Of Basic Necessities And Economic Inefficiency.

The World Designed By God Cannot Be A World In Which Some Hoard Immoderate Wealth In Their Hands, While Others Suffer From Destitution And Poverty, And Die Of Hunger. Love Must Inspire Justice And The Struggle For Justice