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" The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue. "

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" It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality. "

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" The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. "

" The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. "

" It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it. "

" The Church is not self-made, it was created by God and is continuously formed by Him. This finds expression in the Sacraments, above all in that of Baptism: I enter into the Church not by a bureaucratic act, but with the help of this Sacrament. "

" A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. "

" When the danger is great, one must not run away. "

" We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. "

" The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. "

" In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart. "

" The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. "

" Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude. "

" Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him. "

" The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace. "

" For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant. "

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" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "

" We need Grace and forgiveness. "

" The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son. "

" It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God. "

" Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses. "

" The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me. "

" Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange. "

" It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people. "

" A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. "

" We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. "

" One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality. "

" Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. "

" Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions. "

" The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. "

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" An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. "

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