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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.

Pope John Paul II

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.
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Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Children Race Years
To reach peace, teach peace.
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Peace Reach Teach
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
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
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Faith Inspiration Reality
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Culture Death Life Love
Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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Catholic Lord Men
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Beautiful Jesus Living Self True
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Faith Inspiration Tasks
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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Communication Men Religious
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Facts Moral Responsibility
Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Commitment Mean Self
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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Faith Father Jesus
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Beloved Brother Way

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