Hope for the World Quotes

“We are citizens of our country, and our duty to society is to witness to the moral law, which is the prerequisite for peace in our life together.”
― Raymond Leo Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ

“If you really understand Islam, you understand that the Church really should be afraid of it.”
― Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ

“If we want to preserve the common good in society, it is extremely important that good, generous members of the lay faithful become active in politics. I recall how much Saint John Paul II insisted in his Encyclical Evangelium vitae that it is essential for the family to become a more powerful political force so as to restore in society respect for the inviolable dignity of human life.”
― Raymond Leo Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ

“We must return to our roots, to the foundations of our being, and therefore to metaphysics. It is good to go back and reflect again on the meaning of existence, of family life, of life in society and in the world. The human mind needs a realist philosophy to serve as a basis for its understanding of the mysteries of the faith. God alone is the goal of our quest, and everything must lead to Him. Contemporary man will recover from the current situation only with this theocentric perspective”
― Raymond Leo Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ

“Yes, I agree and say, with Pope Benedict XVI, that relativism—the loss of a sound metaphysics and, consequently, of a sense of an objective reality—is the greatest danger in our days. It leads to so many errors that profoundly destroy persons and society. It hinders a just relationship with God that helps us to behave responsibly toward others and in the world.”
― Raymond Leo Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ

“But unfortunately we have lost the sense of the great gift of the faith, the sense of what the Church is and the sense of Tradition. I was very much inspired by the Address of Pope Benedict XVI to the Curia, on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord in 2005. In it, he explained how to interpret the conciliar reforms by using two formulas, contrasting “the hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture” with “the hermeneutic of reform in continuity”.”
― Raymond Leo Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ

“The crisis of the Church is identified with 1968, the year of the revolution started by Parisian students against all forms of authority. And therefore this crisis was unleashed by a false understanding of the relation between faith and culture.”
― Raymond Leo Burke, Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ