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The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
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Ambitious
Good Life
Life Good Good Life
Life Good I Am
The Only Thing
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My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.
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Crosses
Foreheads
Goodnight
Parent
Cross
Parents
Sign
Trace
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The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
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God Will Never
Reveal
The Problem With
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Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.
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Faithfulness
New Life
Reflection
Life Love God
Sexual
Qualities
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The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
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Christ
Conform
Gains
Lasting
Lasting Happiness
Our Lives
Paradox
Profound
True Freedom
Gain
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In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need.
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Catholic
Denial
Friday
Generous
Tied
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No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs.
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Encouragement
Intelligent
Response
Stability
Urgent
Ignore
Practical
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In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.
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Sympathy
Abortion
Catholic
Catholic Church
Human Life
Perspective
Tragedy
Beginnings
Objective
Principle
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Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
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Friendship
Desolate
Transient
Committing
Factor
Friendships
Network
Young People
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A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things... they are rooted to the role of the man.
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Jesus
Catholic
Historic
Priesthood
Rooted
Sacrifice
Understanding
Life Sacrifice Man
Actions
Role
Strongly
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One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter.
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Catholic
Identity
Orientation
Regret
Sexual
Shaped
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I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.
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Circumstances
Guide
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The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.
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Creative
Eternal
Husband
Husband And Wife
Wife
Life Love God
Brings
Human Being
Life Is A
Sharing
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Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.
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Compassion
Crisis
Dying
Elderly
Members
Sick
Bringing
Forth
Maturing
Young Adults
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You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.
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Blood
Celibacy
Notion
Old Testament
Sacrifice
Testament
Life Sacrifice Man
Life Man Woman
Levi
Shedding
Tribe
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In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.
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Flip
Generations
Individualism
Youngsters
Express
Exuberant
Minded
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I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.
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Communication
Community
Interpersonal
Losing
Mean
Thinking
Worry
Build
Emails
Excessive
Necessary
Text
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For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.
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Conventions
Openness
Fathers
Family Marriage Society
Institution
Mothers
Remaining
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Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.
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Faith
Incessant
Invisible
Life Love God
Springs
Beyond
Surprises
Enlightens
Limited
Opens
Sees
Takes
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Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.
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Jesus
Activity
Belief
Christ
Draws
Embrace
Incomplete
Solitary
Dimension
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I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are.
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Catholic
Pope
Remarkable
Variety
Expressions
Plurality
Rites
Traditions
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In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
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Forgiveness
Christ
Flower
Goodness
Maturity
Sacrifice
Self Sacrifice
Temptation
Ultimate
Life Love Death
Flowers
Ideal
Overcomes
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Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.
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Benefits
Conversation
Dialogue
Eloquent
Gentle
John Paul
Pope
Rational
Refined
Views
Engage
Greatly
Measured
Paul
Presence
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We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.
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Be Patient
Body
Body Language
Community
Exclusive
Important
Information
Interaction
Language
Losing
Mood
Patient
Skills
Social
Social Skills
Together
Too Much
Use
Person
Very
Living
Much
Make
Part
Too
Read
How
Electronic
Human
Important Part
Moment
Point
Press
Right
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Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.
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Loyalty
Appreciate
Bonding
Football Team
Identification
Mercenary
Regret
Spectators
Extent
Local
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