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The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

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Pope Benedict XVI
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: April 16
Philosopher
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Roman Catholic Priest
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Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
Pope Benedict XVI
Josef Ratzinger
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.
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Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.
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The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
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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.
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Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its methodology, because He is the human face of God, who wishes to meet all men and women so as to bring them into communion with Him, in His love.
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Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
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Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
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It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
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The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
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It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.
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The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
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The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself they are asking for mystery, even if they do not realize this themselves. They need the sign of the wholly Other, the living Word of God, entering into this our age in unadulterated trustworthiness and dynamism.
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God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
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Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion
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I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love.
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
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Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
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In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
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The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
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