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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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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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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Know what you are talking about.
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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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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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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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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.
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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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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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