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In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

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Pope Benedict XVI
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: April 16
Philosopher
Pianist
Religious Writer
Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
Transitional Deacon
University Teacher
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
Pope Benedict XVI
Josef Ratzinger
Benedetto XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.
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Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.
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I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.
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Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
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I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.
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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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Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.
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Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.
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Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
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Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
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In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
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Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
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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.
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Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
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There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility...
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Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.
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Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure abiding love your challenge self-giving love your mission!
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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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The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
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