You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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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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Another name for peace is development.
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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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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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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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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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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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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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