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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Pope John Paul II

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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Inspiration Responsibility
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Evil Jesus Prayer
The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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Children Giving Siblings
True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Beautiful Jesus Living Self True
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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Expression God Maturity Servant
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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Creating God Joy Made
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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Heart Life Men Productive
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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Mean Pleasure Way
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Humble Prayer
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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Challenges Inspire Levels
And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Cfs Feet Shoes
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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Art Men Tasks
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Faith Inspiration Tasks
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Justice Social Violence
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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Christian Compassion Pain
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Art Purpose Spirit

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

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