Miguel Pro Quotes

Because the true root cause of hunger is inequality, any method of boosting food production that deepens inequality will fail to reduce hunger. Conversely, only technologies that have positive effects on the distribution of wealth, income, and assets, that are pro-poor, can truly reduce hunger.

Here in the midst of the vortex I am amazed by the special aid of God, the very special graces He grants us in such perils, and how His Presence is now more intimately felt when discouragement comes to make our souls smaller.

Ianua caeli ora pro nobis

To a friend, Miguel wrote, "Sorrow is not contrary to perfect conformity to the will of God, so still I mourn... she is in Heaven; from thence she sees me, blesses me and takes care of me. However, that does not stop her orphan children from shedding torrents of tears, nor from feeling in their souls a sorrow that only God can measure.

He continued with a plea to be allowed to resume his ministry, promising to use caution so as not to be caught and pointing out that "The most they can do is kill me, and that only on the day and in the hour that God has appointed.

The adoption of this baby by the Pro family led to a vicious rumor. Fr. Mayer, Miguel's superior, was certain there was no impropriety, but the attack on a member of his community vexed him, and he remarked to Fr. Pro, "Defend yourself, Father." Miguel replied, "Not if I can help it. For the first time in my life I am sure of not having committed a fault that I'm reproached for! Defend myself and lose the only chance I have had of imitating Jesus Christ, who kept silent when He was judged unjustly? Oh no!

J. Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil, along with his brother Joseph N., despised Roosevelt and their former business competitor John D. Rockefeller, whose brand of ecumenism, interdenominationalism, and an internationalist Protestantism that prioritized science and reform, was leading the nation, they believed, toward secularism. Committed to Christian libertarianism, they became patrons of Fifield’s work by the mid-1940s, outsourcing the task of persuading citizens to embrace capitalist ideology to the church. Later, they would back an obscure tent-revivalist preacher and fiercely pro-capitalist named Billy Graham. Called by Pew, not God, Graham railed against all liberal social programs—the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society—during his crusades. Social ills such as racism would not be remedied by government, Graham preached.