Property

“The natural right to property rests directly on the freedom of the acting subject. The supposedly modern concept of property rights is, in this sense, a medieval invention.”

“The good of an individual is the same as the good of the community, but it is greater when considered as a common good. . . . The love of virtue tends to unite cities in the koinē sympheron, the common coming together or common good of civic life.”

“Insofar as money relates to all things, and in an abstracted sense contains them, it masquerades, so says Aquinas, as a universal good.”

“Marriage now has a ‘share in the full and definitive love of Christ for the Church’ and the ecclesial mission to mediate and symbolically make that present to the world.”

“[T]he teacher . . . sows the word he himself has received from above (through his own masters and mentors) so exhaustively that its bounty emerges wholly from the student’s heart as if without any other cause.”

“Only when we know that we are creatures loved by God, forgiven by God, and called into friendship by God, as Ratzinger invites us to consider, do we live truly free and with purpose and hope.”