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Pope Benedict XVI
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: April 16
Philosopher
Pianist
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Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
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University Teacher
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
Pope Benedict XVI
Josef Ratzinger
Benedetto XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development.
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Purity of heart is what enables us to see.
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Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.
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Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.
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The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.
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Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.
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Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy.
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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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We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
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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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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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The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.
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The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church-I am convinced of it-a new spiritual springtime.
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It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.
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Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.
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One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.
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Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.
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Forgiveness does not replace justice.
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