We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we have love for our neighbor, we will find the face of Christ in the poor, the weak, the sick and… — Pope Benedict XVI Love Copy Share Image
Many false idols are held up today. For Christians to be faithful, they can't be afraid to go against the current. — Pope Benedict XVI Christianity Copy Share Image
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The reasonableness of creation derives from God's Reason, and there is no other really convincing explanation.” — Pope Benedict XVI Reason Copy Share Image
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God… — Pope Benedict XVI Commitment Copy Share Image
Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest'… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Love Copy Share Image
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the… — Pope Benedict XVI Age Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general… — Pope Benedict XVI Christian Copy Share Image
Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Analysis Copy Share Image
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia… — Pope Benedict XVI Boss Copy Share Image
To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems… — Pope Benedict XVI Easter Copy Share Image
Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
“True worship is the living human being, who has become a total answer to God, shaped by God's healing and transforming word.… — Pope Benedict XVI Offering to god Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Attitude Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Adults Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI Abortion Copy Share Image
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our… — Pope Benedict XVI Data Copy Share Image
Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried… — Pope Benedict XVI Agreement Copy Share Image
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI Action Copy Share Image
Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change? — Pope Benedict XVI Change Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom… — Pope Benedict XVI Creator Copy Share Image
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much… — Pope Benedict XVI Church Copy Share Image
“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness” — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire… — Pope Benedict XVI Attention Copy Share Image
These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America. — Pope Benedict XVI America Copy Share Image
The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure. — Pope Benedict XVI Dream Copy Share Image
Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Faces Copy Share Image
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the… — Pope Benedict XVI Death Copy Share Image
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ 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… — Pope Benedict XVI God Copy Share Image
The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future… — Pope Benedict XVI Conservative Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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