I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 Copy Share Image
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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
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
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning… — 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
Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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