A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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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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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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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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The 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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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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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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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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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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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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