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The Priest Is Not And Must Not Be A Civil Servant Of The Church. Above All The Priest Is A Man Who Lives For The Spirit For God. This Being The Case The Seminary Is The Place Where He Learns 'to Be With Him.'

-Pope John Paul II

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The Priest Is Not And Must Not Be A Civil Servant Of The Church. Above All The Priest Is A Man Who Lives For The Spirit For God. This Being The Case The Seminary Is The Place Where He Learns 'to Be With Him.'

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Let Science Tell Us What And How. Let Religion Tell Us Who And Why.

A Person's Rightful Due Is To Be Treated As An Object Of Love, Not As An Object For Use.

The Truth Of Faith About Creation Is Radically Opposed To The Theories Of Materialistic Philosophy. These View The Cosmos As The Result Of An Evolution Of Matter Reducible To Pure Chance And Necessity.

Another Name For Peace Is Development.

I Sense That The Moment Has Come To Commit All Of The Church's Energies To A New Evangelization... No Believer In Christ, No Institution Of The Church Can Avoid This Supreme Duty: To Proclaim Christ To All Peoples.

Faced With The Widespread Destruction Of The Environment, People Everywhere Are Coming To Understand That We Cannot Continue To Use The Goods Of The Earth As We Have In The Past ... [a] New Ecological Awareness Is Beginning To Emerge Which Rather Than Being Downplayed, Ought To Be Encouraged To Develop Into Concrete Programs And Initiatives.

Although I Have Lived Through Much Darkness, I Have Seen Enough Evidence To Be Unshakably Convinced That No Difficulty, No Fear Is So Great That It Can Completely Suffocate The Hope That Springs Eternal In The Hearts Of The Young... Do Not Let That Hope Die! Stake Your Lives On It! We Are Not The Sum Of Our Weaknesses And Failures; We Are The Sum Of The Father's Love For Us And Our Real Capacity To Become The Image Of His Son.

There Is A Growing Threat To The Environment, To The Vegetation, Animals, Water And Air. Sacred Scripture Hands Us The Image Of Cain Who Rejects His Responsibility: 'am I My Brother's Keeper?' The Bible Shows The Human Person As His Brother's Keeper And The Guardian Of Creation Which Has Been Entrusted To Him.

The Mother Of Christ, Who Stands At The Very Center Of This Mystery...is Given As Mother To Every Single Individual And All Mankind.

Open Your Minds And Hearts To The Beauty Of All That God Has Made And To His Special, Personal Love For Each One Of You.

When A Parliamentary Or Social Majority Decrees That It Is Legal, At Least Under Certain Conditions, To Kill Unborn Human Life, Is It Not Really Making A Tyrannical Decision With Regard To The Weakest And Most Defenseless Of Human Beings?....while Public Authority Can Sometimes Choose Not To Put A Stop To Something Which Were It Prohibited Would Cause More Serious Harm, It Can Never Presume To Legitimize As A Right Of Individuals Even If They Are The Majority Of The Members Of Society An Offense Against Other Persons Caused By The Disregard Of So Fundamental A Right As The Right To Life.

Do You Think That There Can Be Anything Greater Than To Bring Jesus To People And People To Jesus?

Pervading Nationalism Imposes Its Dominion On Man Today In Many Different Forms And With An Aggressiveness That Spares No One. The Challenge That Is Already With Us Is The Temptation To Accept As True Freedom What In Reality Is Only A New Form Of Slavery.

Technology That Pollutes Can Also Cleanse, Production That Amasses Can Also Distribute Justly, On Condition That The Ethic Of Respect For Life And Human Dignity, For The Rights Of Today's Generations And Those To Come, Prevails.

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.

Love Between Man And Woman Cannot Be Built Without Sacrifices And Self-denial.

To Recite The Rosary Is Nothing Other Than To Contemplate The Face Of Christ With Mary.

The Distinctive Mark Of The Christian, Today More Than Ever, Must Be Love For The Poor, The Weak, The Suffering.

A Man Shows Himself A True Disciple Of Christ By Carrying The Cross In His Turn Every Day In The Activity That He Is Called To Perform.

Evangelization Through The Eucharist, In The Eucharist, And From The Eucharist - These Are Three Inseparable Aspects Of How The Church Lives The Mystery Of Christ And Fulfills Her Mission Of Communicating It To All People.... In Addition To The Preaching Of The Message, The Consummation Of Evangelization Consists In The Building Up Of The Church, Which Has No Real Existence Without The Sacramental Life Culminating In The Blessed Eucharist

It Is Jesus Who Stirs In You The Desire To Do Something Great With Your Lives, The Will To Follow An Ideal, The Refusal To Allow Yourselves To Be Ground Down By Mediocrity, The Courage To Commit Yourselves Humbly And Patiently To Improving Yourselves And Society, Making The World More Human And More Fraternal.

Contraception Contradicts The Full Truth Of The Sexual Act As The Proper Expression Of Conjugal Love.

Even If The Forces Of Darkness Appear To Prevail, Those Who Believe In God Know That Evil And Death Do Not Have The Final Say.

Only Faith In Christ Gives Rise To A Culture Contrary To Egotism And Death.

Young People Are Threatened... By The Evil Use Of Advertising Techniques That Stimulate The Natural Inclination To Avoid Hard Work By Promising The Immediate Satisfaction Of Every Desire.

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.

[st. Francis] Looked Upon Creation With The Eyes Of One Who Could Recognize In It The Marvelous Work Of The Hand Of God. His Solicitous Care, Not Only Towards Men, But Also Towards Animals Is A Faithful Echo Of The Love With Which God In The Beginning Pronounced His 'fiat' Which Brought Them Into Existence. We Too Are Called To A Similar Attitude.

The Obligation To Earn One's Bread Presumes The Right To Do So. A Society That Denies This Right Cannot Be Justified, Nor Can It Attain Social Peace.

Stupidity Is Also A Gift Of God, But One Mustn't Misuse It.

By Dialogue, We Let God Be Present In Our Midst, For As We Open Ourselves To One Another, We Open Ourselves To God.

We Are Not The Sum Of Our Weaknesses And Failures, We Are The Sum Of The Father's Love For Us And Our Real Capacity To Become The Image Of His Son Jesus.

Apart From The Mercy Of God, There Is No Other Source Of Hope For Mankind.

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.

If The Aim Is Globalization Without Marginalization, We Can No Longer Tolerate A World In Which There Live Side By Side The Immensely Rich And The Miserably Poor, The Have-nots Deprived Even Of Essentials And People Who Thoughtlessly Waste What Others So Desperately Need. Such Countries Are An Affront To The Dignity Of The Human Person. He Further Said, Ethics Demand That Systems Be Attuned To The Needs Of Man, And Not That Man Be Sacrificed For The Sake Of The System.

Taking Into Account These Distinctions, In Harmony With The Magisterium Of My Predecessors[81] And In Communion With The Bishops Of The Catholic Church, I Confirm That Euthanasia Is A Grave Violation Of The Law Of God, Since It Is The Deliberate And Morally Unacceptable Killing Of A Human Person.

Bless, O Lord Of The Centuries And The Millennia, The Daily Work By Which Men And Women Provide Bread For Themselves And Their Loved Ones. We Also Offer To Your Fatherly Hands The Toil And Sacrifices Associated With Work, In Union With Your Son Jesus Christ, Who Redeemed Human Work From The Yoke Of Sin And Restored It To Its Original Dignity.

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