The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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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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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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