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Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.
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
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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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I leave from where the apostle arrived.
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The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!
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It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
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For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.
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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.
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Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.
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Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
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Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.
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[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself
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Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
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Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!
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A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.
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The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.
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By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.
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