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 IIThe distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Another name for peace is development.
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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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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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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.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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