It is true ... there have been priests and even bishops who have done this. I think it is still going on because something does not stop just because you have become aware of it, we have been working on this for a long time. We have suspended some priests because of this.

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I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

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We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out.

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I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their sufferings in fellowship with Jesus Christ and to support all those who care for them. To all the ill, and to all the health-care workers and volunteers who assist them, I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing.

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Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

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God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

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A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

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Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!

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It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

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Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

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Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

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Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

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An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

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Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

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Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

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Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

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I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

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In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

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Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.

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Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

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I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

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