To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
So you say you love the poor? Name them.
Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself.
Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.