3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II 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.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II 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.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II 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.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II 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.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
