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What Has The Cross Left In Each Of Us? You See, It Gives Us A Treasure That No One Else Can Give: The Certainty Of The Faithful Love Which God Has For Us. A Love So Great That It Enters Into Our Sin And Forgives It, Enters Into Our Suffering And Gives Us The Strength To Bear It. It Is A Love Which Enters Into Death To Conquer It And Save Us.

No Act Of Virtue Can Be Great If It Is Not Followed By Advantage For Others. So, No Matter How Much Time You Spend Fasting, No Matter How Much You Sleep On A Hard Floor And Eat Ashes And Sigh Continually, If You Do No Good To Others, You Do Nothing Great.

Legal Systems, At Both The National And International Level, Are Therefore Required To Recognize, Guarantee And Protect Religious Freedom, Which Is A Right Intrinsically Inherent In Human Nature, In Man's Dignity As A Free Being, And Is Also An Indicator Of A Healthy Democracy And Cone Of The Main Sources Of The Legitimacy Of The State. Religious Freedom ... Favors The Development Of Relationships Of Mutual Respect Between The Different Confessions And Their Healthy Collaboration With The State And Political Society, Without Confusion Of Roles And Without Antagonism.

A Delicate Balance Is Required To Combat Violence Perpetrated In The Name Of A Religion, An Ideology Or An Economic System, While Also Safeguarding Religious Freedom, Intellectual Freedom And Individual Freedoms. But There Is Another Temptation Which We Must Especially Guard Against: The Simplistic Reductionism Which Sees Only Good Or Evil; Or, If You Will, The Righteous And Sinners.

We Need To Be Creative With Young People. If They Have No Opportunities, They Will Get Into Drugs And Be Vulnerable To Suicide.