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 IIFor by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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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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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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True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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