The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWars 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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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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 truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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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