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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.

Pope John Paul II

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Christian Holy Eucharist Thursday
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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Moral Religious Would
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Beautiful Christian Rosary
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Justice Social Violence
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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Men Way World
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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Christian Forever Love
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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Matter Philosophy Views
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Catholic Christian Suffering
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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Care May Men
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Church Hate Hatred
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men Sacrifice Self
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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Facts Moral Responsibility
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Choices Conscious Humanity
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
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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Christian Humble Prayer
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Evolution Mean Men Theory
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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Countries Country Historical Socialist
From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Gone Son Surrender
Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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Football Important Subject
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
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Creating God Joy Made
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Communion Important People
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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Heart Prayer Simple
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Host Sacred World
Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Caring Effort September
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Let Religion Science Tell
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Family Independence Lying Selfish

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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