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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

Pope John Paul II

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Human Life
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Abortion Priorities Rights
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Peace Problem War
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Compassion Pain
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Anniversary Family Love
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Church Teaching
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Justice Social Violence
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Brother Secret Spokes
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Example Friends Perfection Young
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Men Spirit
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Greatness Inspiration
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Energy Moments
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Sacred World
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Beyond Faith Ourselves
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Commitment Denial Self

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