Stephen

“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

“Emigration and war are two sides of a single coin. It has been rightly said that the greatest producer of migrants is war - war in one guise or another, since climate change and poverty are, essentially, the sick fruit of a blind war that man himself has declared - against a fairer distribution of resources, against nature, against his own planet.”
― 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

“The idea of continually returning to ashes is the nostalgia of fundamentalists, but this must not be the true sense of the word: Tradition, instead, is a root that is essential for the tree always to bear fruit”
― Pope Francis