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• If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

  Pope Paul VI

  Believe, Duty, If You Believe

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• The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Men, Practice

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• We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

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  Islamic, Church, Riches

  Pope Paul VI, Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI) (1972). “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”

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• Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour

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  Suffering, Church, Way

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• Never give advice in a crowd.

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  Giving, Never Giving Up, Advice

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• We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Christmas, Faith, Xmas

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• The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.

  Pope Paul VI

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976*). “On evangelization in the modern world”

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• No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

  Pope Paul VI

  War, Destiny, People

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

  Pope Paul VI

  Two, Historic, Armament

  Sermon by Pope Paul VI at the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal (May 13, 1967), as reported in The New York Times (p. 47), May 14, 1967.

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• The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

  Pope Paul VI

  Needs, Poverty, Suits

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• No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

  Pope Paul VI

  Law, Faithful, Church

  "Humanae Vitae". Pope Paul VI 's Encyclical Letter on the regulation of birth, w2.vatican.va. July 25, 1968.

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• Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Conflict

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• True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.

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  Real, Men, Tasks

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• Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

  Pope Paul VI

  Cracks, Way, Temples

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• Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.

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  Teacher, Religious, School

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• The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven, is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. And this existence remains present, after the sacrifice, in the Blessed Sacrament, which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches.

  Pope Paul VI

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

  "The Credo of the People of God: a theological commentary".

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• Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

  Pope Paul VI

  Warfare, Absence, Catholicism

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• Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

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  Failure, Men, Want

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• Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

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  Lord, Should, Eternal Life

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• It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.

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  Real, Men, Doubt

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• I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

  Pope Paul VI

  Brother, Men, Hundred

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• Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

  Pope Paul VI

  Children, Parent, Degrees

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• After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?

  Pope Paul VI

  Country, Land, Civilization

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• The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

  Pope Paul VI

  Brother, Blessed, Cutting

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• Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Justice, Want

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