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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

Pope John Paul II

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Greatness Life Pro Tests
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Inspiration
You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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Fearless Needs World
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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Commitment Denial Self
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Life Simple Way
An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Christ Important Life
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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Countries Country Historical Socialist
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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Life Love Religious
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian
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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Catholic Spirit Suffering
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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Care May Men
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Memories Mother Sacrifice
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
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Light Rosary Scripture
Know what you are talking about.
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Jesus Knowing Knowledge Talking
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Catholic Foundation Honor
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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Mean Pleasure Way
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Church Energy Moments
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World
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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Christ Mother Mystery
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Child Children Family Newborn
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Art Men Tasks
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Catholic Men Suffering
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Faith Inspiration Responsibility
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Culture Death Life Love
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Sacred World
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

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