Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIRediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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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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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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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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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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