May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITruth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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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.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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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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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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