Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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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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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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.
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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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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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