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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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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. Pope Benedict XVI
Beauty Way Strip Diminished Would Would-Be Some Wished Blinded Itself Form Reason
In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah. Pope Benedict XVI
History Result Darkest Ideology Jews Gave Insane Carried Systematically Out Born Rise Attempt Period Passed German Regime Century Planned European Exterminate
The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity. Pope Benedict XVI
God Women Humanity Crime Men Hatred Contempt Women And Children Children Manifested Against
Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer. Pope Benedict XVI
Church Simply Like Employed Employer Catholicism Catholics Labor Germany Handle Often Established Them Union Who
For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant. Pope Benedict XVI
God Me Signs Mercy Increasingly Idea Becoming Dominant Times Central
A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions. Pope Benedict XVI
Resolve Mine Weak Point Making Making Decisions Governing Maybe Decisions Little
In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. Pope Benedict XVI
Work Myself Spiritual Failure Reality Strong Carried Out Weakness See More Point Practical Am Governance Years Questions Reflects Eight Certainly Who Professor
I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way. Pope Benedict XVI
You Language Important Before Appropriate Way Latin Say Furthermore Something More Weeks Write Know Most Wrote Well Because How Text Precision Cannot Which Resignation Two Two Weeks
It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society. Pope Benedict XVI
Life Old Church Living Christian Society Changing Progressing Evident Abandoning Fabric Vanishing More Structures Clear New Most New Forms Always Traditional Itself Forms Europe European Therefore Appearance Element
Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ. Pope Benedict XVI
Truth Faith Prayer Truth Is Christ Church Sun East Ourselves Introduced Rising Direction Facing Returning Prayed Expansive Which Means Reason Liturgy Event Why Early Symbol Christians
I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion. Pope Benedict XVI
Life Church Matters Out Both Simply Joseph Ideas Occur Am Common Happened Communion Use Speaking Many Expressing
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. Pope Benedict XVI
Love Today Appropriate Punish Correctly Possible Has-Been Over Balanced Learn Been Sinner Person Form Again Who Harmed
The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people. Pope Benedict XVI
Love Good People Mind Church Good People Awareness Punish Punishment Must Prevailing Laws Rather Mentality Thus She Odd Exist Led Very Act Even
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere. Pope Benedict XVI
Religion Sphere Those Would Silenced Purely Voice Advocate Least Private Who
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate. Pope Benedict XVI
Rules Evolution Construct Attempts Simply End Up Being Psychology Inadequate Ethic Sociology
While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them. Pope Benedict XVI
Humanity Overcome Dangers Possibilities Ourselves Must See Open Arising New Also How New Possibilities While Them Ask Rejoice
We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie. Pope Benedict XVI
God Needs Lie Giving Own See Only Person Infinite Human Available Creates Appearance
We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others. Pope Benedict XVI
Work Love Gift Others Possibility See Give Also Lord Essential To Love Us Presence
It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people. Pope Benedict XVI
People Important Jewish People All People Absolutely Also Make Gospel Understandable Accessible Jewish
The myth of my solitude makes me laugh. Pope Benedict XVI
Me Solitude Myth Laugh Makes
My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family. Pope Benedict XVI
Family Never Clear As Far As Far Plans Desire
It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God. Pope Benedict XVI
God Prayer Conversation Word Important Past Living Enter Sacred Thus Learn Read Understand Text Historical Scripture
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment. Pope Benedict XVI
Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Fact Clear Obviously Equipment Subjects Artificial Human In Fact Placed Transmitted Origin Creators Conscious
Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses. Pope Benedict XVI
Faith Strict Own Sense Possible Putting Term Without Dialogue
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