The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 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
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 Copy Share Image
I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called… — 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 Copy Share Image
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone. — 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 Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to… — 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 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
