This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAll human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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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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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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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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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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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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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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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