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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.

Pope John Paul II

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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Darkness Tired World
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Moral Religious Would
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Pleasure Way
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Believe Jesus Running
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Maturity Men Work
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Justice Social Violence
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Sacred World
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Peace Problem War
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Matter Philosophy Views
If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Asks Giving Knows
The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Horizon Today
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Holiday Inspiration
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.’
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Hate Hatred
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Humanity Men
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Creative might Negative
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Culture Humans

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