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" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant. "

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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 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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" It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society. "

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" Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. "

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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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" Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. "

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" You can't talk about what you haven't felt. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. "

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" I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality. "

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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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" 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. "

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" The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. "

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" In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. "

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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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" The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. "

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" The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. "

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" 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. "

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