"The charge made by the Jansenists that the popes curtailed the rights of archbishops in order to increase and strengt…"

"It is no presumption to say that our educated Catholic laity is, unfortunately, too little acquainted with the safely…"

"If we manage to intensify coexistence between local faithful and immigrants and to make their cohabitation more grati…"

"What really attracts the will, and stirs it as a motive to action, is the goodness of the object presented by the int…"

"The contribution of historians was in fact indispensable. The Church wished to ask for forgiveness not in a disordere…"

"As Bishop of St. Cloud, he was extremely active, and renowned as a pulpit orator."

"You know, as nuncio, as a representative of the Holy Father, I am saddened and ashamed, that when in a neighboring co…"

"An inner fatigue has grown in me that has gradually deprived me of the momentum and serenity needed to lead the Churc…"

"In all frankness, I was hoping that the choice would not fall on me. What the Pope wants, you cannot refuse. It is qu…"

"In spite of the diversity of national situations and - within a Country such as Switzerland - of individual dioceses,…"