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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
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Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
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Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses,
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We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.
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Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.
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The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way…. the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it,
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No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
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Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
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Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.
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To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.
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Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.
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With regard to man's innate drives and emotions, responsible parenthood means that man's reason and will must exert control over them.
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The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships.
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I was solitary before, but now my solitariness becomes complete and awesome. Hence the dizziness, the vertigo. Like a statue on a plinth-that is how I live now. Jesus also was alone on the cross. I should not seek outside help to absolve me from my duty; my duty is too plain: decide, assume every responsibility for guiding others, even when it seems illogical and perhaps absurd. And to suffer alone… Me and God. The colloquy must be full and endless.
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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.
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The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.
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No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
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It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.
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The question of human procreation, like every other question which touches human life, involves more than the limited aspects specific to such disciplines as biology, psychology, demography or sociology.
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If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.
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The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what happened? Was there a clash, a battle, a condemnation? There could have been, but there was none
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Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.
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Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all other, and this until death.
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Pope Paul VI
Born:
September 26, 1897
Died:
August 6, 1978
(aged 80)
Bio:
Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, reigned as Pope from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978.
Known for:
Humanae vitae (1968)
Populorum progressio (1967)
Sacerdotalis caelibatus (1967)
Christian Values and Virtues
Presbyterorum Ordinis
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