In an ever more open world, building peace through dialogue is no longer a choice but a necessity! — Pope Benedict XVI 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 Copy Share Image
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care… — 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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — 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 a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be… — 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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