“Man is constantly tempted to look away from the living God, to look at idols. By indulging in relativism and skepticism, man seeks illusory freedom.”
“And what the international community perhaps lacks most of all today is not written Conventions or forums for self-expression — there is a profusion of these! — but a moral law and the courage to abide by it.”
“International law cannot be the law of the stronger, nor that of a simple majority of States, nor even that of an international organization. It must be the law which is in conformity with the principles of the natural law and of the moral law”
With the consent of Bernard Lecomte “The World According to John Paul II”; Tallandier 2018
Excerpts from John Paul II speeches: Encyclical Veritatis splendor, August 1993; Address to the Diplomatic Corps, January 13, 1997; Address to the Diplomatic Corps, January 11, 1999
