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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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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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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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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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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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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