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It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope Benedict XVI
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: April 16
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Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
Pope Benedict XVI
Josef Ratzinger
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Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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