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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.’

Pope John Paul II

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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Catholic Spirit Suffering
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Host Sacred World
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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Family Independence Lying Selfish
May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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Feet Jesus Sacrament World
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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Thinking Tragedy Two
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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Hatred Passion Struggle
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Fabric Humanity Violence
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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Matter Philosophy Views
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use
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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Faith Father Inspiration
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Itself Prevail Virtue
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Desire Men Women
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Dying Treats Vulnerable
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Christian Holy Eucharist Thursday
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Abortion Priorities Rights

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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