Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Hands are the heart's landscape.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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