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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greatness of work is inside man.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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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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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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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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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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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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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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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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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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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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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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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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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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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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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