17 Quotes by The Catholic Church

The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their final end, by the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Creator. All law finds its first and ultimate truth in the eternal law. Law is declared and established by reason as a participation in the providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of all.

Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.

  Man and woman were made “for each other”—not that God left them half-made and incomplete: he created them to be a communion of persons,

The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.

When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete” (St. Augustine,

Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,140 tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”141 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no 2333    circumstances can they be approved.

The word Rosary comes from the Latin rosarium which literally means a rose garden.

Between God and us there is an immeasurable inequality, for we have received everything from him, our Creator.