All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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?
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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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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.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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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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