21st April in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Wisdom, patience and moderation are more necessary here than elsewhere and it would be the ruin of everything to speak of the Motherland, as some of our colleagues have done, or maintain as absolute arguments which are at the very least questionable and perhaps are excessive.

19th April in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

There, then, for an entire unfortunate race, is the cruel Passion of the Saviour truly renewed. All its elements are found there. I could point them out one by one. Nothing is missing, neither the Herods, nor the Pilates, nor the Judas, nor the cruelty of the scourging, nor the cowardly insults, nor the cross.