Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnly the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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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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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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