More from John Paul II (Pope)

  1. Violence and war can never resolve the problems of men.
  2. Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
  3. Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
  4. War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
  5. The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necess…
  6. The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is th…
  7. Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only rem…
  8. You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated in…

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