"The deepest poverty is the inability of joy,……" — Pope Benedict XVI

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a… - Pope Benedict XVI

"The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified."

— Pope Benedict XVI

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