The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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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.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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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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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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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.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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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.
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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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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 problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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