Pope John
Pope John
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deeply grieved by the fact that priests and religious have themselves caused such suffering and scandal among the young.
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I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.
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Open, indeed, throw open wide the doors to Christ!
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It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.
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Please heed the words of our Holy Father: There is no place in the priestly ministry for those who harm children,
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If we see opportunities to improve relationships with shippers, we work with them.
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder
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Human labor cannot be treated merely as a resource necessary for production -- the so-called 'work force.' Man cannot be regarded as a tool of production. Man is the creator of work and its craftsman.
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He invites us to offer the Lord a dwelling in our souls and in our lives. Not only must we bear him in our hearts, but we must take him to the world, so that we too might engender Christ for our times.
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My thoughts are always on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where the religious community and many other people remain under siege after more than 22 days,
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Christ is truly risen! In him, today, we can overcome forces of evil.
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In those difficult times, we asked that His power might be poured into the hearts of men and women and that hope might be stirred in them. Is not all that happened at that time in Europe and the world, beginning with our own homeland, God's response?
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Once more I express my nearness to the populations struck by the tragic cataclysm of these past days.
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If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light