God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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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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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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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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