Freedom Transcendence and the Good

“Freedom is dependent on the existence of things of intrinsic value. A world of mere options is a world without the possibility of freedom.”

“Community is not first an object of choice but a gift always already given and calling forth gratitude and further giving.”

“In the years of the Council, as we meditated on the apostolate of the laity, and as the constitution ‘On the Church in the Modern World’ was in gestation, I often thought of Jerzy.”

“It is a tribute to the Father that the Son is perfect in his humanity, because the Son thereby justifies the Father’s creation. But his perfection is an act and an achievement of his love for the Father and for human beings. His love is so great that it is able to embody the Father’s holiness in human form.”

“By defending the human being, beauty also defends philosophy. It protects the great question which man himself becomes from being broken down into petty problems.”

“For all Church Fathers and for all medieval authors this was the main consequence of inspiration: the presence of a christological sense in all parts of the Bible.”

“We need to reaffirm the perennial conviction of the Church that she has no right to renounce her mission of universal evangelization.”