You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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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 struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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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 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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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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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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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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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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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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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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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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