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Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Pope John Paul II

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Catholic Past War
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Facts Moral Responsibility
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Example Friends Perfection Young
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Catholic Coincidence Design
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
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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Heart Prayer Simple
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Feelings Persons Responsibility
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Catholic Errors Science
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Catholic Humanity Men
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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Catholic Spirit Suffering
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Creative might Negative
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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Mean Pleasure Way
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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Hatred Passion Struggle
In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Darkness Tired World
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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Matter Philosophy Views

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