Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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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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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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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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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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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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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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Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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