Pope Benedict XVI

During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place…

— Pope Benedict XVI

One who has hope lives differently.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain…

— Pope Benedict XVI

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were…

— Pope Benedict XVI

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently…

— Pope Benedict XVI

From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Normal food is less strong than man, it serves him, is taken into man’s body to be assimilated and to build it…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

— Pope Benedict XVI

In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and…

— Pope Benedict XVI