Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face:… — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply… — Pope Benedict XVI Adoration Copy Share Image
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI Death Copy Share Image
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Biblical Copy Share Image
Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission… — Pope Benedict XVI Acts of love Copy Share Image
I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything.… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why,… — Pope Benedict XVI Affair Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Normal food is less strong than man, it serves him, is taken into man’s body to be assimilated and to build it… — Pope Benedict XVI Bread Copy Share Image
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
Dear brothers and sisters...The Lord is calling me to "climb the mountain", to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But… — Pope Benedict XVI Age Copy Share Image
Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to… — Pope Benedict XVI Absolutes Copy Share Image
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in… — Pope Benedict XVI Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic… — Pope Benedict XVI Adoration Copy Share Image
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a… — Pope Benedict XVI Change the world Copy Share Image
While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh;… — Pope Benedict XVI Faces Copy Share Image
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes… — Pope Benedict XVI Bridges Copy Share Image
I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is… — Pope Benedict XVI Action Copy Share Image
We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give a faithful… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from… — Pope Benedict XVI Abortion Copy Share Image
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and… — Pope Benedict XVI Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust… — Pope Benedict XVI Abuse Copy Share Image
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once… — Pope Benedict XVI Believer Copy Share Image
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