1.“ Love truth; show yourself as you are, without pretences and fears and without ceremonies. And if the truth causes you persecution accept it, and if it causes some torment, bear it and if for truth’s sake you should sacrifice your self and your life be strong in your sacrifice”

-St Joseph Moscatti, personal logbook, 1922,

 

1a “ Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat-the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden."

-C.S Lewis, The Weight of Glory

2. “Only the freedom which submits to the Truth leads the human person to his true good. The good of the person is to be in the Truth and to do the Truth”

-JPII, Encyclical Veritatis Splendor No. 84

3. " Some people try to justify abortion by claiming that the result of conception, at least up to a certain number of days, cannot yet be considered a personal human life. But in fact,"from the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor the mother; it is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never be made human if it were not human already."

-JPII, Encyclical Evangelium Vitae No. 60

4. "Of itself, philosophy is able to recognize the human being's ceaselessly self-transcendent orientation towards the truth; and, with the assistance of faith, it is capable of accepting the “foolishness” of the Cross as the authentic critique of those who delude themselves that they possess the truth, when in fact they run it aground on the shoals of a system of their own devising"

-JPII, Encyclical Fides et Ratio No. 23

5. "Modern atheism was fundamentally an act of human self-assertion, in which the autonomy of the human subject and world was the prize. Being far more potent than the original rebellion and self-assertion of Adam it would lead not only to a denial of God but also a denial of being, truth and meaning. In a word, Nihilism. “Despite all the humanistic impulses at work in modern atheism, the death of God leads ultimately to the death of man”

-Cardinal Walter Kasper The God of Jesus Christ 1983

6. "To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom."

-JPII, Encyclical Evangelium Vitae No. 20

7. "Beneath the numerous surface currents which carry contemporary thought….it is possible to detect an immense drift; through the action of a large proportion of the foremost thinkers, the peoples of the West are denying their Christian past and turning away from God”

Henri de Lubac, “The Drama of Atheistic Humanism” pg vii

8. "Although there are many institutions that are officially committed to human dignity (think of the UN), the Catholic Church is the only one of them that consistently ties human dignity to man’s bodily nature: the Catholic Church stands alone in proclaiming that man enjoys a transcendent dignity precisely because his body has a theological significance. For the Church, Christian orthodoxy stands or falls with the defense of the integrity of corporeal nature and its characteristic acts, because this integrity is both a condition of, an element in, and in some sense a consequence of the Incarnation and the Resurrection."

--Adrian J Waker: Communio Journal Summer 2006 "The Body and Human Dignity" Introduction