Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church,… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include:… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.” — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven, is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies.… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people,… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image