Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIt 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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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 Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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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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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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