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Pope John Paul II

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Country Example People Responsibility
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attempt Evil Men Rights
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Culture Humans
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Dimension Littles Much Too
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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Body Human Splendour
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hatred Passion Struggle
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Church Hate Hatred
Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Thinking Tragedy Two
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Humanity Men
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beyond Faith Ourselves
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Art Men Tasks
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Lover Religion
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christ Mother Mystery
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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God Relationship Want
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Catholic Silly Stupidity

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