Paul Keenan"After a few sleepless nights I finally found the way to a real reason that makes life worth living, a voice I rejected in my childhood: I turned to God! My heart will be at peace now with faith in God. Evil has been chased away and I can live free from anxieties until the day when I will close my eyes forever in this life."
Tô Hai, famed North Vietnamese composer and former communist activist describes his recent conversion to Christianity.
“The evils that we are experiencing today are mainly caused by negligent fathers and husbands who ran away from their responsibilities. St Joseph obeyed the voice of God and listened to it carefully; that is what fathers should do.”
Cardinal Polycarp Pengo criticises absent fathers as he inaugurates the Year of the Family in Tanzania.
“Egypt now needs a firm hand. For three years the country has been descending into chaos. Someone must apply the laws again and must not discriminate between sections of the population.”
Bishop Adel Zaky, Vicar Apostolic of Alexandria, signals the challenge facing newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.
“The libertarianism deregulation of the market is much to the disadvantage of the poor. This economy kills. This is what the Pope is saying.”
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, speaking in the United States defends the Pope’s critique of capitalism.
“Not all of life is fair. I will stand by my convictions until somebody shuts me down.”
Jack Phillips, a baker in Denver, Colorado, USA, remains defiant after the state’s Civil Rights Commission ruled him guilty of discrimination after he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
“Not for nothing did theologians like to talk about the ‘Church of Christ’ and not just the Church. In this way we can better understand that if the Church is of Christ, man cannot change her nature. The Lord's words are, in fact, very clear: 'The heavens and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away' (Lk 21, 33).”
Voicing support for Church reform, former Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano adds that it is not governed by public opinion.