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The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it i...

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Sacrosanctum Concilium: Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy

Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the...

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Humanae Vitae: Of Human Life

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth...

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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensi...

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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great ...

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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change th...

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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life ...

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We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable...

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No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...

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We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive ...

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If you want peace work for justice.

The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other t...

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Sacrosanctum Concilium: Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
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Pope Paul VI

Born: 1897-09-26

Died: 1978-08-06

Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms, and fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements.More