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.
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.
The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist.
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
The world designed by God cannot be a world in which some hoard immoderate wealth in their hands, while others suffer from destitution and poverty, and die of hunger. Love must inspire justice and the struggle for justice
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority, nationalism and ethnic exclusivism. No less pernicious, though not always as obvious, are the effects of materialistic consumerism, in which the exaltation of the individual and the selfish satisfaction of personal aspirations become the ultimate goal of life. In this outlook, the negative effects on others are considered completely irrelevant.
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
Hands are the heart's landscape.
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.
We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.
True living is not found in one's self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
