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We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

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Catholic, Evolution, Results

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

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Catholic, Action, Tradition
Pope Benedict XVI's Address at The Meeting with The Representatives of British Society, Including The Diplomatic Corps, Politicians, Academics and Business Leaders, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

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Religious, Political, Church

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

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Children, Church, Down And

The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure.

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Dream, Jesus, Real
Pope Benedict XVI (2005). “On the Way to Jesus Christ”, p.6, Ignatius Press

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

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Faith, Inspiration, Space

The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.

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Safety, Justice, Humanity
Encyclical Letter "Spe Salvi", w2.vatican.va. November 30, 2007.

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.

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Men, Light, Shining
"Benedict XVI calls for unification of Christians". www.cnn.com. April 21, 2005.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

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Justice, Doe
Pope Benedict XVI's In-Flight Press Conference to Portugal, w2.vatican.va. May 11, 2010.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

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People, Together, Earth

Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to follow Him and give Him the best of ourselves. This is what the saints have always done, spreading the light of the Lord ... and transforming the world into a welcoming home for everyone.

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Home, Sacrifice, Fire

Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

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Children, Greatest Treasure, Evil
Pope Benedict XVI's address at a Meeting on Family and Life Issues In Latin America, w2.vatican.va. December 3, 2005.

Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbours. The gaze of Jesus, what “his eyes” teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods.

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Jesus, Eye, Giving
Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With Volunteer Associations in Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 9, 2007.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

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Prayer, Mean, Drawing

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

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Jesus, Heart, Mean

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

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Humility, Stronger, Weakness

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

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Evil, Answers, Faces

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

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Faith, Inspiration, Self
Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ

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People, And Love, Christ

A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

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Attitude, Wind, Ego

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

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Men, Law, Foundation

Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.

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Wall, Hate, Communication

Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.

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Faith, Children, Book

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

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Art, Saint, Apologetic

The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Sacrifice

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