War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThere is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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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 priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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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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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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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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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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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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