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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Pope John Paul II

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Counter Cultural
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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Giving Heart Reading
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Creative might Negative
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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Challenges Inspire Levels
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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Catholic Faith Inspiration
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
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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Art Color Nourish Unique
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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God Heart Jesus Love
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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Lying Mean School
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
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Children Pride World
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use
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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Men Talent Treasure
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Christian People School
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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Abortion Priorities Rights
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 ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Greatness Life Pro Tests
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Catholic Humanity Men
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Communion Important People
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Excess Levels People
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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Faith Heart Inspiration
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Fabric Humanity Violence
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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Dark Prayer Profound
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Biblical People Tasks
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Environmental Pattern Profound
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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Catholic Past War

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