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The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

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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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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