The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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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 purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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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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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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