Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo reach peace, teach peace.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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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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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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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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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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