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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

Pope John Paul II

The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Memories Mother Sacrifice
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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Catholic Death Dying
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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Desire Prayer Sacrifice
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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Commitment Mean Self
The Family that prays together, stays together.
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Christian Rosary Together
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Culture Death Life Love
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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Peace Problem War
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Abortion Priorities Rights
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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God Men Order Peace
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Fairness Justice Peace
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Environmental Pattern Profound
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beyond Faith Ourselves
Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Heaven Men Sex
An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Christ Important Life
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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Husband Life Love
And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Cfs Feet Shoes
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Good Leader Littles
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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Challenges Inspire Levels
None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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Giving Poor Rich
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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Anniversary Family Love
Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Actors Humanity Order
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Justice Social Violence
Another name for peace is development.
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Challenges Inspire Names
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Atheist Culture Giving
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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Confidence Godly Moving

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