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• All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

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  Men, People, Church

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• How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

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  Girl, Sheep, Feelings

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• The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.

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  Spiritual, Giving, Soul

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• Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

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  Two, Arms, Knees

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• Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

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  Grace, Vision, Impossible

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• The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

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  Modesty, Insidious, Justify

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• Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

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  Teaching, Atheism, Church

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• True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

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  Today, Foundation, Different

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• Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

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  Christian, Character, Son

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• The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

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  War, Mean, Conflict

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• Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.

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  Christian, Daughter, Mother

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• Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

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  Religious, Determination, Freedom

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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.

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  Pain, Attitude, Responsibility

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• This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs from the other sacraments in that it not only produces grace, but contains in a permanent manner the Author of Grace Himself. When, therefore, the Church bids us to adore Christ hidden behind the Eucharistic veils and to pray to Him for spiritual and temporal favors, of which we ever stand in need, she manifests faith in her divine Spouse who is present beneath these veils, she professes her gratitude to Him, and she enjoys the intimacy of His friendship

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Strong

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• Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

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  War, May, Lost

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• Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

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  Hate, Party, Passion

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• The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.

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  Jesus, Keys, Needs

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• That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

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  Doe, Moral, Action

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• The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

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  Progress, Church, Facts

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• "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's." One would like to add: Give unto man things which are man's; give man his freedom and personality, his rights and religion.

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  Men, Rights, Giving

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• But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love

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  Mother, Vision, And Love

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• Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this "clean oblation" (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.

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  Father, Race, Dying

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• But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.

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  Christian, Fall, Responsibility

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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

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  Pain, Men, Layers

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• All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Men, Jesus Christ

  "America", Vol. 100, by America Press, (p. 121), 1958.

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