A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThere 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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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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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 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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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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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.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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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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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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