The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIt 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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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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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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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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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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