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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.

Pope John Paul II

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Fairness Justice Peace
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Art Men Tasks
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Nation Past War
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Creating God Joy Made
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Believe Jesus Running
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Jesus People Thinking
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Death Dying
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Humanity Peace War
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Sacred World
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Parent School
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Confined Culture Truth
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
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

Countries Country Historical Socialist
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?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Race Years
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Church Teaching
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Foundation Honor

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