Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
From Pope John Paul II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
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