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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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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" I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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

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

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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

" This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" I leave from where the apostle arrived. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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.' "

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

Pope Benedict XVI