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Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
Pope Benedict XVI
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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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Transitional Deacon
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Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
Pope Benedict XVI
Josef Ratzinger
Benedetto XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.
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You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
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The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.
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The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ.
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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
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I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.
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In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
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Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities I can give them the look of love which they crave.
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God is alive. He has created every one of us, and he knows us all. He is so great that He has time for the little things in our lives: “Every hair of your head is numbered”. God is alive, and makes sense to become a priest: the world needs priests, pastors, today, tomorrow and always, until the end of time.
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Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to aim at faith (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.
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Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
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The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure.
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The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.
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Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.
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If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!
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In the eyes of the unrighteous it appeared that God did not intervene and that His Son died, but for believers it was at that precise moment that true glory was manifested and definitive salvation achieved.
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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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The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a new creation, capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
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Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine, seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times.
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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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