Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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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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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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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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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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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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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Pray 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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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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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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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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