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 IIEach 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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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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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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To 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.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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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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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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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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