Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.
Pope John Paul IIThe dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice.
Pope John Paul IIFrom now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul IIPervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II