The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYou are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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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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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Know what you are talking about.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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