Salvatore J. Cordileone famous quotes

03-30-2025

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Care #Needs #Common
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Punishment #Church #Target
I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Thinking #Focus #Benefits
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Brain #Stewardship #Chemicals
If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Believe #Suffering #Sexuality
We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Mother #Children #Father
Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Brother #Gay #Holiness
Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Teaching #Perspective #Catholic
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Mother #Father #Reality
We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
-- Salvatore J. Cordileone

#Country #Exercise #People

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