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54 quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; German pronunciation: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈalɔʏzjʊs ˈʁatsɪŋɐ]; on 16 April 1927) served as pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave following the death of Pope John Paul II and was inaugurated on 24 April 2005. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger established himself as a...
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about... →

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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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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;... →

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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from... →

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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil... →

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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be... →

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Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and... →

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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own... →

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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content... →

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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and... →

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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... →

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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... →

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