Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 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
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish… — 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 think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel is not… — 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… — 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… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face:… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — 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
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the… — 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
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
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search… — 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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