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An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

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Beautiful, Church, Missionary

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

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Looks, Christ, Adoration

If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!

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Christian, Son, Joy

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

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Prayer, Love You, Saint

That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.

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Responsibility, People, Humanity
"Benedict XVI to pray for improved Sunday worship and evangelization efforts". www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 30, 2009.

While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.

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Flames, Challenges, Faces

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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Religious, Responsibility, Building Up
"Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

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Children, Fighting, Names
Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.163, CUA Press

[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

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Jesus, People, Christ

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

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Art, Reality, Men

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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Office, Realizing, Pope
"Pope says in book he would resign if incapacitated". www.reuters.com. November 22, 2010.

The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.

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Jesus, Passion, Doe

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to "be" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13).

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Teacher, Jesus, Adventure
"Apostles Proclaim Christ, Not an Idea, Says Pope". zenit.org. March 22, 2006.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

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Abortion, Slavery, Tyranny
"Pope vows to defend Catholic church's 'pro-life' doctrine" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2005.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

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Catholic, Unity, Shepherds
"Mass, Imposition of the Pallium And Conferral of the Fisherman's Ring For the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry Of the Bishop of Rome". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the St. Peter's Square, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

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Sister, Brother, Humble
Remarks from balcony at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 19 Apr. 2005

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

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Believe, Men, Important

The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who is Love. To you young people, who are in search of a firm hope, I address the very words that Saint Paul wrote to the persecuted Christians in Rome at that time: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Rom 15:13).

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Christian, Believe, Rome
Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

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. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love

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Real, Nice, Past

Do not be afraid to say “yes” to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will...

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Jesus, Joy
Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Mass for the 23rd World Youth Day at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

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Catholic, Shepherds, Good Shepherd

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them- agree to change their course by clear and firm decision and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. The resources which would be saved could then be employed in projects of development capable of benefiting all their people, especially the poor.

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Religious, War, Nuclear Disarmament

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

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Believe, Stakes, Existence

During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.

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Commitment, Today, Rooms

When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together.

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Men, Order, Law
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.31, Ignatius Press

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