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Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
German Clergyman
Born: Apr 16, 1927
Church Faith God Great Love Me
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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. Pope Benedict XVI
God Peace Women World Men Men And Women World Peace Our Earth Hearts Nations Your Among Bring Violent
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. Pope Benedict XVI
Ego Dictatorship Own Relativism Recognize Highest Toward Does Goal Anything Which Moving Certain Desires
True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey. Pope Benedict XVI
Journey Challenge Faithful Our True True Friends Friends Us Help
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. Pope Benedict XVI
Political Political Power Church Power Party Moral
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit. Pope Benedict XVI
Way Say Possess We Cannot Ourselves Would Spirit Give No-One He Simply Render Effective Effective Way Close Cannot Which Personally Holy Means Transmit Holy Spirit
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI
Death War Abortion Diversity Penalty Moral Moral Issues About Weight Catholics Opinion Waging Issues Death Penalty Same May Legitimate Regard Euthanasia Even Among Applying
God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion. Pope Benedict XVI
Love God Change Words Unity Trinity Directed He Himself Does Always His Communion Works Ever
Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight. Pope Benedict XVI
God Justice Mercy Tremble Sight Toward Makes His Moves While Us
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. Pope Benedict XVI
Today Me Interior Matter Ethics Values Responsibility Own Reciprocal Visible Solidarity Seems Something Rather Could Take Economy Principle Does Itself Account Human Cannot Which Really Function Technical Human Values Exterior
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. Pope Benedict XVI
Religion Humanity Important Both Importance Tied Roles Essential Theology Reason Function Keep
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. Pope Benedict XVI
Truth God Faith Time Fashion Great Other Others Must About More Both Know Great Truth Catholic Learn Content Dialogue Cannot Agnostic Search Each Deeper Need
If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned. Pope Benedict XVI
Great Commitment Church Lost Conviction Definitely Abandoned Council Vatican True Missionaries Missionary Catholic Catholic Church Were After Baptized Explains Century Convinced Who Second
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made. Pope Benedict XVI
Rights Natural Own Duty Human Rights Every Consequences State Crises Primary Protect Well Man-Made Human Sustained Whether Population Grave Humanitarian Violations
Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ. Pope Benedict XVI
Love God Great People Christ Love Story Those Great Love Sacred Share His Want Story Which Scripture Us Who Shows Jesus Jesus Christ Beloved Desire
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. Pope Benedict XVI
Great Me Humble Simple John Brothers Brothers And Sisters John Paul Lord Dear Sisters After Paul Elected Worker Pope Pope John Paul II Vineyard Cardinals
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Fashion Waves Latest Follow Adult Does
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. Pope Benedict XVI
Love Good Great Liberty Values Liberalism Solidarity General Conditioned Connected
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI
Great Respect Legal Marriage Reality People Own Living Other Way Correct Kind Must Find Above Great Respect Also Does Hand Want Form Create Help Who Suffer Homosexual
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. Pope Benedict XVI
Hope Man Peace Too Be A Man Short Reign
Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Reflection Own Penetrate My Own Attempt Nor Being Depths Product Even
We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. Pope Benedict XVI
Today Man Earth Destroy See His Existence Foundation
We need Grace and forgiveness. Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness Grace Need
I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. Pope Benedict XVI
Positive Life Education Church Will Important Sense Liberation Must Both Rationality Term Know Always Private Private Life Very Offers Contribution Common Which Public Us Much Theology Help Fundamental Conscience Interpreted
The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Pope Benedict XVI
Church Way Only Prevent Spread Proven Traditional Teaching
If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Great Path Church Evil Goodness Christian Out Neither Silent About Purity Remain Over Course Shining May Which Centuries Then Should Keep Christian Faith
Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions. Pope Benedict XVI
Path Rather Dialogue Than Decisions Unilateral Choose
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