Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — 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
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — 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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