Being baptized, we are illuminated. Illuminated, we become sons. Made sons, we are made perfect. Made perfect, we are made immortal.
St. Clement of Alexandria (150-215AD) on Baptism
Someone may object that it is foolish to believe what he cannot see…. Yet life in this world would be altogether impossible if we were to believe only what we can see. How can we live without believing others? How is a man to believe that his father is So-and-so? Hence man finds it necessary to believe others in matters that he cannot know perfectly on his own.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274AD) on Faith
In a world that often reduces sex to the pursuit of pleasure, and in some cases to domination, the Church has a special mission. She is to place sex in the context of conjugal love and of generous and responsible openness to parenthood.
Pope John Paul II (1920 - 2005AD)
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