The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe only way to peace is forgiveness.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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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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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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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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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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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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