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.’
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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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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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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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.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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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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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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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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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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