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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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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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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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