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What is most admirable about the events we witnessed is that all nations spoke out loud: women, youths, men, everybody overcame fear.

— Pope John Paul II

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How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Fides et Ratio (1998)

As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The moral life presents itself as the response due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man.

Veritatis Splendor (1993)

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