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
We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. – Pope Benedict XVI
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. – Pope Benedict XVI
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. – Pope Benedict XVI
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Pope Benedict XVI
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia. – Pope Benedict XVI
God is not distant: he is ‘Emmanuel,’ God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus. – Pope Benedict XVI
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: ‘What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?’ – Pope Benedict XVI
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. – Pope Benedict XVI
If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost – and that explains their missionary commitment – in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned. – Pope Benedict XVI
In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love. – 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
We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others. – Pope Benedict XVI
Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ. – Pope Benedict XVI
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. – Pope Benedict XVI
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate. – Pope Benedict XVI
Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange. – Pope Benedict XVI
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. – Pope Benedict XVI
The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. – 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
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. – 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
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
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. – Pope Benedict XVI