It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.