I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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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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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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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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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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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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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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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