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" If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign. "

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" 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

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" I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian. "

" To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. "

" One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality. "

" Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Psychology

Rules

" In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart. "

" The Church is not self-made, it was created by God and is continuously formed by Him. This finds expression in the Sacraments, above all in that of Baptism: I enter into the Church not by a bureaucratic act, but with the help of this Sacrament. "

" We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive. "

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Labor

Union

" We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. "

" The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions. "

" True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey. "

" I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship. "

" 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. "

" In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah. "

" 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. "

" When the danger is great, one must not run away. "

" Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses. "

" God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus. "

" It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people. "

" Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. "

" 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. "

" Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions. "

" 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

God

Speak

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "