God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist 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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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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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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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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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.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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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.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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