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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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Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions. Pope Benedict XVI
Path Rather Dialogue Than Decisions Unilateral Choose
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. Pope Benedict XVI
Freedom Religion Space Responsibility Building Society State Religions Religious Civil Religious Freedom Civil Society Rather Gives Factors Toward Does Impose Up Just Therefore
I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality. Pope Benedict XVI
Future Creative Reality Church Values Minority Past Sense Living Heritage Say Relevant Must Would Minorities Determine Catholic Catholic Church Understand Itself Very Normally Things
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! Pope Benedict XVI
Truth Freedom Relationship Joy Christ Church Beauty Living Society Born Splendour Witnesses How How Much Holiness Much Need
We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves. Pope Benedict XVI
Best Respect Pay Pay Attention Other Others Way Correct Ourselves Best Way Developing Attention Also Well Concerned Human Being Which Persons Manner Aspects Professions
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses. Pope Benedict XVI
Trust Experience People Important Addition Weaknesses See Parish Priest Generosity Also Him How His Itself Very
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. Pope Benedict XVI
Truth God Faith Fruit Charity Joy Grace Community Bears Welcomes Gospel Hears Wherever Believers Lives
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality. Pope Benedict XVI
Schizophrenia Elsewhere Latin Latin America Morality Sees Individual Between Also Catholics America Public Certain Many Among
If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations. Pope Benedict XVI
Future Protection Solidarity Future Generations Distributed Costs Various Environment Generations Taking Development Countries Involves Due Account Different Justly Different Levels Should Levels Need
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken. Pope Benedict XVI
Responsibilities Responsibly Joint Taken Road Failing Accept Does Making Prudence Committed Being After Decisions Mean Means
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. Pope Benedict XVI
God Me Man Heart Political Responsibility Moral Responsibility Energy Spheres Moral Born Seems Absence Economic Rediscover Exists End In The End Even Presence Necessary Need
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age. Pope Benedict XVI
Age Passion Christ Church Sacrifice Every Our Members Embraces Mystery Mystical Lord Continuing His Blood Turn Body
Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.' Pope Benedict XVI
Time World Financial Big Too Resources Draw Vast Fail Institutions Concerned Witnessed Always Governments Human Short Where Rescue Deemed Lives
The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us. Pope Benedict XVI
Positive Grateful Humanity Progress Possibilities Has-Been Marvellous Unreservedly Opened Been Up Acknowledged Modernity Mankind Us Aspects Granted
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. Pope Benedict XVI
Strong Evil Seen Intrinsic Moral Must Moral Evil Objective More More Or Less Tendency Thus Sin Particular Although Itself Person Ordered Disorder Less Inclination Homosexual
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. Pope Benedict XVI
Christmas God Faith Time Man Speak Events Soil Made Become Christian Rise Sacred Never Particular Die Wanted Place Again Us Choice Separated Who Christian Faith
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude. Pope Benedict XVI
Today Hope Time Gratitude Sadness Our Earth Immortality Seed Remains Joyful His Hearts Same Same Time Bury Full Profound
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Abuse Precisely Resisted
I leave from where the apostle arrived. Pope Benedict XVI
Leave Arrived Where Apostle
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. Pope Benedict XVI
Democracy Church Society Appropriate Civil Purely Civil Society Simply Conduct Cannot Standards Workings Applied
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Great Me Together Joy Bishop Great Joy Brother Brothers Priests His End Mandate Confirm In The End Rome
The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. Pope Benedict XVI
Life Christ Church Outpouring Source Blood
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Heart Reality Christ Sacrifice Our Backdrop Council Catholic Catholic Faith Always Been Question Against Justification Century
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. Pope Benedict XVI
Politics Church Sense Say Enterprise Moral About Something Since Should Fundamentally
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others. Pope Benedict XVI
Freedom Rights Responsibility Made Every Assume Others Relations Entering Correlation Between Name His Person Duties Which Choices Her Consequence
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own. Pope Benedict XVI
Good Courage Church Before Own Difficult Oneself Having Also Make Trying Loving Choices Means Ever
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