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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

Pope John Paul II

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Church Lover Religion
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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Catholic Humanity Men
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth
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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Children Parent School
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Family Independence Lying Selfish
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Faith Family Inspiration
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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Prayer Rosary Simplicity
Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Men Sovereign Way
Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Caring Effort September
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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Art Color Nourish Unique
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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Husband Life Love
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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Christ Mother Mystery
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Memories Mother Sacrifice
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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Countries Country Historical Socialist
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Children Christian Giving
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Faith Inspiration Men
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Catholic Silly Stupidity
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Evolution Mean Men Theory
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Mean Nation Past War
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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Believe Jesus Running
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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Anniversary Family Love
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Choices Evil Heart
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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Hatred Passion Struggle
Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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Football Important Subject
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Catholic Coincidence Design
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Gone Son Surrender

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