What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnce 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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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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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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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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