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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

Pope John Paul II

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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Environmental Pattern Profound
Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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Catholic Lord Men
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Men Talent Treasure
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Catholic Errors Science
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Let Religion Science Tell
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Art Talent Waste
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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Catholic Death Dying
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Hope Nations People Without
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Facts Moral Responsibility
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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Expression God Maturity Servant
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Challenges Order Routine
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Matter Philosophy Views
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Embrace Justice Want
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Biblical People Tasks
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Economic Tests Workers
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Example Friends Perfection Young

How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

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