What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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 promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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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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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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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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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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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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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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