The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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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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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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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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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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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