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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Biblical People Tasks
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Evil Jesus Prayer
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Mean Nation Past War
Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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Continuously God Heart Joy Prayer
The greatness of work is inside man.
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Greatness Inside Man Men
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Catholic Crosses God Love
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Good Leader Littles
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World
What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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Brother Secret Spokes
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Challenges Order Routine
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Fairness Justice Peace
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
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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Life Sacred World
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 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
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
Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Catholic Eucharistic Lives Make
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
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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Believe Jesus Running
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beyond Faith Ourselves
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.
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Country Example People Responsibility
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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Catholic Human Life
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Faith Inspiration Men
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Men Talent Treasure

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