John Paul
John Paul
bring couple home hoping runs short
We're hoping he'll get a couple of short runs for a couple of touchdowns and bring home that Steelers victory.
expressing grateful heartfelt hosting thank youth
I am expressing a very, very heartfelt thank you for being here, and I am very grateful you are hosting World Youth Day in Canada.
punishment suffering trends
[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
catholic god-is-love crosses
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
attitude freedom 4th-of-july
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
choices humanity conscious
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
intense-training judging mind
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.
raw-materials principles creation
Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.
catholic suffering spirit
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.