A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIBeauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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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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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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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.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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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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