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A highly influential leader of the Catholic Church known for his efforts to improve interfaith relations, address social justice issues, and advocate for human rights. His papacy, one of the longest in history, was marked by numerous international travels and engagements with various world leaders. He played a significant role in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and was instrumental in the development of the Church’s teachings on various contemporary issues. His impact on both the Catholic Church and global politics remains profound.

Pope John Paul II Icon Image
Pope John Paul II
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A highly influential leader of the Catholic Church known for his efforts to improve interfaith relations, address social justice issues, and advocate for human rights. His papacy, one of the longest in history, was marked by numerous international travels and engagements with various world leaders. He played a significant role in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and was instrumental in the development of the Church’s teachings on various contemporary issues. His impact on both the Catholic Church and global politics remains profound.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

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It's too early for a Polish pope.

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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

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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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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

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Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.

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Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new millennium!

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That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.

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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

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In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

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Farmers everywhere provide bread for all humanity, but it is Christ alone who is the bread of life...Even if all the physical hunger of the world were satisfied, even if everyone who is hungry were fed by his or her own labor or by the generosity of others, the deepest hunger of man would still exist...Therefore, I say, Come, all of you, to Christ. He is the bread of life. Come to Christ and you will never be hungry again.

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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

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Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

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Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

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For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation of all peoples. May the humility of the Bride cause to shine forth still more brightly the glory and power of the Eucharist, which she celebrates and treasures in her heart. In the sign of the consecrated Bread and Wine, Christ Jesus risen and glorified, the light of the nations, reveals the enduring reality of His Incarnation. He remains living and real in our midst in order to nourish the faithful with His Body and Blood.

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The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

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The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

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The Family that prays together, stays together.

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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

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