"The Church, without being exactly co-extensive with the Mystical Body, is not adequately distinct from it. For this r…"

"In the interests of refuting such chaotic concepts as those which see a divine Church only in a "Church of the saints…"

"Christian tradition has always looked on heaven under the analogy of a city. Coelestis urbs Jerusalem.[…] It is a cit…"

"Christianity, by those doctrinal aspects that we have just emphasized as well as by others, brought something absolut…"

"Flight, Escape: that in fact was Plato's dictum regarding the soul that acknowledges in itself a principle superior t…"

"The moral value of the different systems varies very considerably. So does their spiritual depth; but in this connect…"

"Outside Christianity humanity can doubtless be raised in an exceptional manner to certain spiritual heights, and it i…"

"It becomes increasingly clear that […] the Christian's watchword can no longer be "escape" but "collaboration". He mu…"

"No one has the right to say with Cain: "Am I my brother's keeper?" [Gen 4:9] No one is a Christian for himself alone."

"The supernatural dignity of one who has been baptized rests, we know, on the natural dignity of man, though it surpas…"