Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world.
For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
Christmas is a day of celebration.
There is no point ruining today's entry with the horrors of the world. Rather, let us celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our King!
Today is Pope Benedict XVI's birthday.
We do not know what they are doing to him behind the walls of the Vatican.
Let us therefore keep him in our prayers!
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