Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are… — 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
The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God.… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress,… — 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
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress… — 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… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by… — 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… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the… — 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
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
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
