May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDarkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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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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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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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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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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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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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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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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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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