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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 II

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Prayer Spiritual
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Given Love People Unconditional
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Desire Prayer Sacrifice
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Silly Stupidity
Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Thinking Tragedy Two
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Football Important Subject
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Grace Hands Mother
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Country Example People Responsibility
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Jesus
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Essentials Responsibility
Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Eye Suffering
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Desire Men Women
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Dying Treats Vulnerable
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Matter Philosophy Views
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Challenges Order Routine

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.

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