The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes"… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The two chapters of Matthew’s Gospel devoted to the infancy narratives are not a meditation presented under the guise of stories, but… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The book is intended to help believing Christians “who today have been made insecure by scientific research and critical discussion, so that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The real question is: What is expiation? Is it compatible with a pure image of God? Is it not a phase in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult"… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The vocation to the priesthood, according to your memoirs, ‘naturally matured within me without any grand conversion experiences’. If there was nothing… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The mature fruit of mystagogy is an awareness that one's life is being progressively transformed by the holy mysteries being celebrated. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To make the sign of the cross is to pronounce a visible and public yes to him who died for us and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“It has been asserted that our century is characterized by an entirely new phenomenon: the appearance of people incapable of relating to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
“Joseph Ratzinger never developed his own theological system. As a theologian he took on what was there, discerned its essentials, situated it in relation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
![“The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known, believed in and loved, and that hearts must be converted if progress is to be made on social issues and reconciliation is to begin, and if - for example - AIDS is…” quote by Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/10c/pope-benedict-xvi-414_aids_the-experience-of-the-african-bishops-is_2298795.jpg)
