The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIt would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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