Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITrue holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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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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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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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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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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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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 Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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