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" God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Faithful
Change
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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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" The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. "
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" The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Prayer
Sun
Truth
" There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere. "
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Voice
Who
" God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf. "
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Become
More
Push
" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "
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God
Light
Great
" The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. "
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Men
Light
World
" Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer. "
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Labor
Like
Union
" God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world. "
Pope Benedict XVI
God
World
Vision
" The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Resisted
Precisely
Faith
" Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Own
Human Rights
Duty
" On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Me
God
Speak
" Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Than
Choose
Decisions
" 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. "
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Always
Sacrifice
Reality
" Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight. "
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Mercy
Justice
God
" It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it. "
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Women
Culture
Marriage
" If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries. "
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Evil
Silent
Path
" The myth of my solitude makes me laugh. "
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Myth
Laugh
Me
" There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none. "
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Festivals
Christmas
Belief
" It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people. "
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Important
Jewish
Gospel
" 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. "
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Gothic
Epiphany
Art
" Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being. "
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" The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath. "
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Saying
Love
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" God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion. "
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" The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. "
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