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When Our Whole Life Is One Faith, Hope, Love, Prayer And Silence, A Consecrated Life Always Bound Up In The Eucharist, Then The 'urge' Towards God Springs.

Look, I Can Surely Say By Now That I've Got The Antibodies To Communism Inside Me. But When I Think Of Consumer Society, With All Its Tragedies, I Wonder Which Of The Two Systems Is Better.

The Family, As The Fundamental And Essential Educating Community, Is The Privileged Means For Transmitting The Religious And Cultural Values Which Help The Person To Acquire His Or Her Own Identity. Founded On Love And Open To The Gift Of Life, The Family Contains In Itself The Very Future Of Society; Its Most Special Task Is To Contribute Effectively To A Future Of Peace.

Before Our Eyes We Have The Results Of Ideologies Such As Marxism, Nazism And Fascism, And Also Of Myths Like Racial Superiority, Nationalism And Ethnic Exclusivism. No Less Pernicious, Though Not Always As Obvious, Are The Effects Of Materialistic Consumerism, In Which The Exaltation Of The Individual And The Selfish Satisfaction Of Personal Aspirations Become The Ultimate Goal Of Life. In This Outlook, The Negative Effects On Others Are Considered Completely Irrelevant.

Human Progress Planned As Alternatives (to God's Plan) Introduce In Justice, Evil And Violence Rising Against The Divine Plan Of Justice And Salvation. And Despite Transitory And Apparent Successes, They Are Reduced To Simple Machinations Destined To Dissolution And Failure.