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" Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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Place
Down
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" A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions. "
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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 everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him. "
Pope Benedict XVI
God
Art
Alone
" The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Life
Source
Church
" 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
Ethics
" The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Fact
Lord
Work
" 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 Christians into the people of God will take place. "
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Christian
God
" Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Courage
Loving
Good
" God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Stranger
Face
God
" The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Church
Peace
Present
" There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Advocate
Voice
Who
" The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Lord
Me
Vineyard
" The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Christian
Jesus Christ
Church
" Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. "
Pope Benedict XVI
People
Marriage
Legal
" The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Speak
Christmas
Time
" The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Always
Sacrifice
Reality
" It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Great
Divorce
Life
" We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Gift
Others
Presence
" 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
" 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
Sin
" We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Life
Others
World
" 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
" If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Need
Environment
Development
" 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 life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Relationship
Good
Life
" I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Short
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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 tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Attitude
Church
Wind
" 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
" A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Responsibility
Space
Freedom
" Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.' "
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Short
World
Time
" Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Great
Simple
Lord