The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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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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