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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

Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Nation Past War
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Law Men
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Race Years
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Environmental Pattern Profound
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Economic Tests Workers
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Art Color Nourish Unique
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Men Suffering
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Family Home
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Eye Suffering
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hate Inspirational Love
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Men Religious
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Silly Stupidity
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Abortion Priorities Rights
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Lover Religion
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Given Love People Unconditional

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