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The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a new creation, capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

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Christian, Inspire, Adults

Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

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People, Political, Association
Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.134, Ignatius Press

Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.

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Faith, Inspiration, Men
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.112, Ignatius Press

The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.

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Stress, Support, Community

That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.

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Christian, Moving, Order

The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development.

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Selfish, War, Environmental

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

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Selfish, Example, Fiction

In the eyes of the unrighteous it appeared that God did not intervene and that His Son died, but for believers it was at that precise moment that true glory was manifested and definitive salvation achieved.

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Eye, Son, Moments

God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.

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Mother, Children, Abortion

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

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Encouragement, Charity, Persevere

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

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Brother, Grief, Despair
"Thousands join pope on Youth Day", www.cnn.com. August 21, 2005.

The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources.

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Space, Environmental, Generations

Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.

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Heart, Mean, People

Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.

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Men, Vices, Links
Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.14, CUA Press

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

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Marriage, Reality, Hands
"Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

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Self, Hands, Possibility

Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to the light and only by sincerely confessing one's sins to God that one finds true peace and true joy. It is therefore important to receive the Sacrament of Penance regularly, especially during Lent, in order to receive the Lord's forgiveness and to intensify our process of conversion.

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Men, Light, Order

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

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Kings, Writing, Men

The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.

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Mean, Maturity, People

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

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Sad, Gratitude, Heart
Pope Benedict XVI (2007). “John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor”

Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony.

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Thinking, Order, Unity
Address at Youth Day Vigil, zenit.org. July 19, 2008.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

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Spiritual, Despair, Desert
"Papal Homily at Closing Mass in Sydney: 'May This 23rd World Youth Day Be Experienced as a New Upper Room'". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI given at the World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, www.catholic-church.org. July 19, 2008.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

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Latin, Heart, America
"Transcript from papal plane en route to Mexico". www.ncronline.org. March 26, 2012.

The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are called to communicate to all the love of God, who manifested himself fully in the only Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ.

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Christian, Jesus, Race

For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.

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Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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