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The Words of Pope John Paul II
Science may help us to correct the mistakes of the past. . . . It is love for our children that will show us the path that we must follow into the future. 

     ~Common Declaration on
     Environmental Ethics, June 10, 2002
Mary shares our human condition, but in complete openness to the grace of God. Not having known sin, she is able to have compassion on every kind of weakness. She understands sinful man and loves him with a Mother's love. 

~Veritatis Splendor, August 6, 1993
 
The Synod Fathers wanted Jesus Christ to be heard and understood by the people entrusted to their care, and by many more. They saw the need to reach out to those who live with unfulfilled hopes and desires, to those who are Christians in name only, and to those who have drifted away from the Church, perhaps because of painful experiences. Every effort should be made to heal such wounds, and to return the lost sheep to the fold.           

                           ~ Apostolic Exhortation: Ecclesia in Oceania,
November 22. 2001

 

 I wish to renew to you the invitation I gave to the entire Church at the beginning of the new millennium: contemplate the face of Christ, his dying face and the face of the risen One! "Jesus' cry on the Cross... is not the cry of anguish of a man without hope, but the prayer of the Son who offers his life to the Father in love, for the salvation of all". It is necessary to welcome this message of hope in one's own life and to proclaim to the world this revelation full of God's Love.

 ~Address to Third International
Convention of ‘Young People
to Assisi’, August 9, 2003

No human sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all his triumphant power, if we only call upon him. Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love of the Father who, in order to ransom a slave, sacrificed his Son: his mercy towards us is Redemption.... No matter how many and great the obstacles put in his way by human frailty and sin, the Spirit, who renews the face of the earth, makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good. This renewal...is in some way the flowering of the gift of mercy, which offers liberation from the slavery of evil and gives the strength to sin no more.  
                                                                                     ~Veritatis Splendor, August 6, 1993