A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIPray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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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.
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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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