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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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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Know what you are talking about.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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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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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Another name for peace is development.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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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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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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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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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 unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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