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" A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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" I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Communion
Ideas
Life
" 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. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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Today
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" The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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Contact
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" The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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Precisely
Faith
" True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Friends
True
Challenge
" Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ. "
Pope Benedict XVI
God
People
Story
" 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 ego and one's own desires. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Ego
Own
Moving
" 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. "
Pope Benedict XVI
More
Strong
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" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Gothic
Epiphany
Art
" I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Values
Reality
Past
" Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Faith
My Own
Own
" Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Republic
Place
Down
" We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Creation
Survive
Respect
" An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Religion
Important
Humanity
" How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! "
Pope Benedict XVI
Beauty
Truth
Relationship
" The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Children
Men
Humanity
" In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Heart
America
Important
" Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Vision
Freedom
Human Rights
" The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Mystery
Age
Body
" Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Mercy
Justice
God
" I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Say
You
Way
" I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Short
Be A Man
Hope
" In the harshness of the world of technology - in which feelings do not count anymore - the hope for a saving love grows, a love which would be given freely and generously. "
Pope Benedict XVI
World
Technology
Love
" The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Today
Respect
Freedom
" We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Others
Best
Attention
" The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Tradition
Action
Reason
" At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Care
Whatever
Want
" 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 to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Fashion
God
Great
" We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Man
Foundation
See
" Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Politics
Moral
Church