The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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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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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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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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