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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. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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" It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses. "
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" We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. "
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" God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. "
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" The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God. "
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" The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. "
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" 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. "
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" When the danger is great, one must not run away. "
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" 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! "
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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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" 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. "
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" Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment. "
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" True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey. "
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" 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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" 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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" A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. "
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" God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me. "
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" The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament. "
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Jesus Christ
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" 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. "
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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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