In this Year of Faith, may every Christian rediscover the beauty of being reborn in the love of God and living as… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic… — 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
For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become… — 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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