Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
POPE JOHN PAUL IICommending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIEvery effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHow 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILife is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIf He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHumanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
POPE JOHN PAUL IISocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThrough the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIArtistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAllow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILove 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 II