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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Jesus Theologian
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Creative might Negative
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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Body Human Splendour
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
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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Catholic Spirit Suffering
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
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Lying Mean School
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
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Baby Encouragement Mother
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Men Religious
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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Faith Holiday Inspiration
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Children Pride World
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Art Purpose Spirit
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Confined Culture Truth

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