The Family that prays together, stays together.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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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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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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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