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January 4, 2009
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

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Read about the USCCB’s Justice for Immigrants campaign and learn the facts about immigration in the United States.

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Pope Benedict XVI , Family, 53 Educating and Witnessing
I address you, dear parents, to ask you first of all to remain firm for ever in your reciprocal love: this is the first great gift your children need if they are to grow up serene, acquire self-confidence and thus learn to be capable in turn of authentic and generous love. Further, your love for your children must endow you with the style and courage of a true educator, with a consistent witness of life and the necessary firmness to temper the character of the new generations, helping them to distinguish clearly between good and evil so they in turn can form solid rules of life that will sustain them in future trials. Thus, you will enrich your children with the most valuable and lasting inheritance that consists in the example of a faith lived daily.
Presentation of a letter to the Diocese of Rome on education
February 23, 2008

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