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Essential To The Attainment Of These National Goals Is The Moral Imperative Of Ensuring Social Justice And Respect For Human Dignity. The Great Biblical Tradition Enjoins On All Peoples The Duty To Hear The Voice Of The Poor. It Bids Us To Break The Bonds Of Injustice And Oppression Which Give Rise To Glaring, And Indeed, Scandalous Social Inequalities. Reforming The Social Structures Which Perpetuate Poverty And The Exclusion Of The Poor First Requires A Conversion Of Mind And Heart.

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Pope Francis

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Essential To The Attainment Of These National Goals Is The Moral Imperative Of Ensuring Social Justice And Respect For Human Dignity. The Great Biblical Tradition Enjoins On All Peoples The Duty To Hear The Voice Of The Poor. It Bids Us To Break The Bonds Of Injustice And Oppression Which Give Rise To Glaring, And Indeed, Scandalous Social Inequalities. Reforming The Social Structures Which Perpetuate Poverty And The Exclusion Of The Poor First Requires A Conversion Of Mind And Heart.

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Seeking Happiness

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Truth, According To The Christian Faith, Is God's Love For Us In Jesus Christ. Therefore, Truth Is A Relationship.

It Makes Me Sad When I Find Sisters Who Aren't Joyful. They Might Smile, But With Just A Smile They Could Be Flight Attendants!

A Christian Is One Who Is Invited... To Join In The Feast, To The Joy Of Being Saved, To The Joy Of Being Redeemed, To The Joy Of Sharing Life With Christ. This Is A Joy! You Are Called To A Party!

People Have To Struggle To Live And, Frequently, To Live In An Undignified Way. One Cause Of This Situation, In My Opinion, Is In The Our Relationship With Money, And Our Acceptance Of Its Power Over Ourselves And Our Society.

Only We Big Sinners Have This Grace Of Knowing What Salvation Really Means.

When We Don't Preach The Lord, We Preach The Devil, And When We Preach Worldliness, We Preach The Devil

The Victims Of Problems Of The Family Are The Children. The Children. Even Of Problems That Neither Husband Nor Wife Have A Say In.

An Example I Often Use To Illustrate The Reality Of Vanity, Is This: Look At The Peacock; It's Beautiful If You Look At It From The Front. But If You Look At It From Behind, You Discover The Truth... Whoever Gives In To Such Self-absorbed Vanity Has Huge Misery Hiding Inside Them.

Do Not Be Content To Live A Mediocre Christian Life: Walk With Determination Along The Path Of Holiness.

On A Positive Note, We Must Reaffirm The Right Of Children To Grow Up In A Family With A Father And A Mother Capable Of Creating A Suitable Environment For The Child’s Development And Emotional Maturity.

Love Makes Us Similar, It Creates Equality, It Breaks Down Walls And Eliminates Distances. God Did This With Us.

Praise Is The 'breath' Which Gives Us Life, Because It Is Intimacy With God, An Intimacy That Grows Through Daily Praise.

I Entrust This Twenty-second World Day Of The Sick To The Intercession Of Mary. I Ask Her To Help The Sick To Bear Their Sufferings In Fellowship With Jesus Christ And To Support All Those Who Care For Them. To All The Ill, And To All The Health-care Workers And Volunteers Who Assist Them, I Cordially Impart My Apostolic Blessing.

War Is Not To Be Waged In The Name Of God.

He Saw The Threat Of The Family Being Destroyed By Not Being Open To Life Or Children. Paul Vi Was Brave. He Was A Good Pastor. He Alerted His Sheep, Telling Them That The Wolves Were Approaching.

It Is Horrific Even To Think That There Are Children, Victims Of Abortion, Who Will Never See The Light Of Day

Let's Return To Our First Love, In Order To Receive The Fire Which Jesus Has Kindled In The World And To Bring That Fire To All People, To The Very Ends Of The Earth.

Gossip Can Also Kill, Because It Kills The Reputation Of The Person! It Is So Terrible To Gossip! At First It May Seem Like A Nice Thing, Even Amusing, Like Enjoying A Candy. But In The End, It Fills The Heart With Bitterness, And Even Poisons Us.

The People Of America, Are Not Fearful Of Foreigners, Because Most Of Us Were Once Foreigners.

The Tyranny Of Relativism Is The Spiritual Poverty Of Our Time

I Do Not Believe, That It Is True Or Right That Islam Is Terrorist.

The Joy Of The Gospel Fills The Hearts And Lives Of All Who Encounter Jesus.

As Your Captain, I'm Going To Push You To Not Fall Back On Defense, But To Play Offense, And To Play Our Match -- The Gospel, Together.

A Senate Vote On Gay Marriage Is A Destructive Pretension Against The Plan Of God

Faith Is Not A Light Which Scatters All Our Darkness, But A Lamp Which Guides Our Steps In The Night And Suffices For The Journey.

The Culture Of Prosperity Deadens Us; We Are Thrilled If The Market Offers Us Something New To Purchase; And In The Meantime All Those Lives Stunted For Lack Of Opportunity Seem A Mere Spectacle; They Fail To Move Us.

Avoiding Pregnancy Is Not An Absolute Evil. In Certain Cases, As In This One, Or In The One I Mentioned Of Blessed Paul Vi, It Was Clear.

When One Lives Attached To Money, Pride Or Power, It Is Impossible To Be Truly Happy.

In The Face Of Life’s Difficulties, Let Us Ask The Lord For The Strength To Remain Joyful Witnesses To Our Faith.

The Pope Appeals For Disinterested Solidarity And For A Return To Person-centred Ethics In The World Of Finance And Economics.

The Corrupt Should Be Tied To A Rock & Thrown Into The Sea

I Asked [guadalupe] For The World, For Peace, So Many Things. I Asked Forgiveness, I Asked That The Church Grows Healthy, I Asked For The Mexican People. And Another Thing I Asked A Lot For: That Priests Be True Priests, And Sisters True Sisters, And Bishops True Bishops. As The Lord Wants.

The World Makes Us Look Towards Ourselves, Our Possessions, Our Desires.the Gospel Invites Us To Be Open To Others, To Share With The Poor.

Dear Young People, Jesus Wants To Be Your Friend, And Wants You To Spread The Joy Of This Friendship Everywhere.

Our Faith In Christ, Who Became Poor, And Was Always Close To The Poor And The Outcast, Is The Basis Of Our Concern For The Integral Development Of Society’s Most Neglected Members.

If, Hypothetically, Western Catholicism Were To Review The Issue Of Celibacy, I Think It Would Do So For Cultural Reasons, Not So Much As A Universal Option.

Do Not Feel Discouraged By All The Challenges And Hardships You Might Face. I Ask You Not To Forget That, Like Those Who Came Here Before You, You Bring Many Gifts To This New Nation Of Yours.

On Climate Change, There Is A Clear, Definitive And Ineluctable Ethical Imperative To Act.

Without Prolonged Moments Of Adoration, Of Prayerful Encounter With The Word, Of Sincere Conversation With The Lord, Our Work Easily Becomes Meaningless; We Lose Energy As A Result Of Weariness And Difficulties, And Our Fervor Dies Out. The Church Urgently Needs The Deep Breath Of Prayer, And To My Great Joy Groups Devoted To Prayer And Intercession, The Prayerful Reading Of God's Word And The Perpetual Adoration Of The Eucharist Are Growing At Every Level Of Ecclesial Life.

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