[ Response to suggestion that it was inappropriate for him as a cardinal to ski, ca. 1968 :] It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

This right [to join a free trade union] is not given to us by the State. . . . This right is given by the Creator.

The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God’s work of creation. In a special way, it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Man creates culture and through culture creates himself.

It would be simplistic to say that Divine