Stephen

“Nostalgia - the nostalgia for our roots - is a healthy feeling, since people with no roots are lost, and a person with no roots is sick. Roots give us the strength to move forward, to bear fruit, to blossom”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“To try to reduce democracy to technocracy, and to expel from it the Gospel inspiration together with all faith in the supra-material, supra-mathematical, and supra-sensory realities, would be to try to deprive it of its very blood. Democracy can only live on Gospel inspiration.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“A law is not made just by the sole fact that is expresses the will of the people. An unjust law, even if it expresses the will of the people, is not law.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“So we took our books and went back over a hundred years of Italian history in search of a "just war." It's not our fault if we didn't find one.”
― Don Lorenzo Milani