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"It is the inalienable right of man to own property. Yet, it is the right of no man to accumulate wealth beyond the necessary and ignore the basic human needs of little children."

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27 Sep  78. The mainstay of his ministry. He preached it for forty years and declared it as Pope in a public audience the day before he died.

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                                                                                 SEX

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" We have made of sex the greatest of sins, whereas in itself it is nothing more than human nature and not a sin at all."

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This was the most prolific teaching of his ministry. He would often tell youth groups, “Think of sex as being good and beautiful, a gift from God. Yet, it comes with responsibility to yourself and others."

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He would tell adolescent groups, "Sex is just a part of growing up. Provided force is not involved, it has no place in the confessional box." He would protect children from pedophile priests who prey on them in the confessional. The confessional booth has been the primary factor in 85% of tried cases of priest pedophilia in the United States.  

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The day before he died he told an assembly of Philippine bishops, "We should be less concerned with what goes on in the privacy of bedrooms which should be none of our concern; and should be more concerned with the real problems of the world which should be our concern. "

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                                                                GENETIC RESEARCH

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"How many children are born is not what is important. What is important is that every child that is born has an equal chance at a good and healthy life. Genetic science will eventually take us there."

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26 Jul 78. Most cardinals, in support of the Church’s ban on genetic experimentation, condemned the first artificially conceived child as "a child of the devil."  Luciani wrote her parents, “I congratulate you on the birth of your little girl. I have no right to condemn you for what you wanted and asked the doctors to carry out. Be assured there is reserved for both you and your child a high place in heaven.” A week later, when questioned by a reporter as to why he had done such a thing, he gave the above response.

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For twenty years as a bishiop and as a cardinal, he was a rampaging locomotive running about the courts and Parliament of Italy championing basic human rights and dignity for all.  

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16 Jan 59. Faced by an orphan population of two million in Italy, it had been his lobbying in Italian Parliament that had made it legal for single persons to adopt children. An opposition member challenged, “That would make it legal for homosexuals to adopt children.” John Paul, at the time Bishop Albino Luciani, gave the above response.

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                                                          SCRIPTURE VS. CONSCIENCE

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"Never be afraid to stand up for what is right whether your adversary be your parent, your teacher, your peer, your preacher,

your constitution or even your God."

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21 Apr 73. Speaking to a youth organization, he praises Lincoln and his followers for having had the courage to have set aside the written word of their God, the Tenth Commandment, “Thou shalt not covet (desire to take from) thy neighbor his house, his wife, his slaves, his ox, his ass.”

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“. . . We must rise up the courage that is within us and set aside the convictions of our Christian forefathers and together we will muster the strength to lift those restraints that have been unfairly placed upon the everyday lives of so many innocent people by doctrine . . . for God-given human life is infinitely more precious than is man-made doctrine . . .”

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27 Aug 78. Acceptance speech John Paul I, Sistine Chapel. He sets the stage for his papacy. He would lift the restraints from women, the remarried, born-out-of-wedlock children, homosexuals and rid the world of poverty. 

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