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" Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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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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" The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. "
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" One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality. "
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" We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie. "
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" The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son. "
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" The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us. "
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" Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses. "
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" We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves. "
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" God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself. "
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" 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. "
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