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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

Pope John Paul II

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Humanity Peace War
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Essentials Responsibility
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Art Men Tasks
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Evolution Mean Men Theory
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Embrace Justice Want
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beyond Faith Ourselves
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Catholic Crosses God Love
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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Mean Pleasure Way
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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Challenges Order Routine
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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Cfs Feet Shoes
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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Dimension Littles Much Too
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Art Talent Waste
The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Generosity Measure Success
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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Catholic Humanity Men
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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Faith Inspiration Men

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