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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. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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" It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty. "

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" The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil. "

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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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" God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself. "

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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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" 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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" An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. "

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