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Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

Pope Benedict XVI
Church, Doe, Eucharist

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.

Pope Benedict XVI
Church, Facts, Constitution
"Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life". zenit.org. April 11, 2005.

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

Pope Benedict XVI
Joy, Church, Needs
Sermon of Benedict XVI, w2.vatican.va. September 18, 2010.

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

Pope Benedict XVI
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.

Pope Benedict XVI
Children, Church, Down And

The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus, Wish, Church

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus, Church, Communion

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Pope Benedict XVI
Law, Church, Speech
"Pope Benedict XVI on the Issues", www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2008.

The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI
Mean, Church, Doe

The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

Pope Benedict XVI
Men, Forgiving, Church
Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.46, Ignatius Press

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

Pope Benedict XVI
Church, Christianity, Process

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

Pope Benedict XVI
Spiritual, Excellence, Church

The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by Christ who enjoined the Apostles to 'go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation.'

Pope Benedict XVI
Priorities, Church, Needs

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

Pope Benedict XVI
Sorry, Abuse, Church
"Pope Benedict's apology" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

Pope Benedict XVI
Church, Moral, Should
"Transcript from papal plane en route to Mexico". www.ncronline.org. March 26, 2012.

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

Pope Benedict XVI
Beautiful, Church, Missionary

One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men and women [...] to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes.' As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God.

Pope Benedict XVI
Men, People, Church

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation of the Gospel bears witness to Christ and is lived out in service of our neighbour through justice for the poorest, education in isolated villages, medical care in remote areas, freedom from poverty, the reintegration of the marginalised, support for the development of peoples, the breaking down of ethnic divisions and respect for life in all its stages.

Pope Benedict XVI
Justice, Support, Church

The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.

Pope Benedict XVI
Church, And Love, Missionary
Pope Benedict XVI's Address to The Participants In The Fifth International Congress Of Military Ordinariates, w2.vatican.va. October 26, 2006.

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need. The Church is one of those living forces.

Pope Benedict XVI
Support, Suffering, Church
Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est" of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, w2.vatican.va. December 25, 2005.

The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

Pope Benedict XVI
Church, Limits, Retreat

The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for the Lord, and the less freedom there is. It is my opinion that we ought to begin an unsparing examination of conscience on this point at all levels in the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Church
Pope Benedict XVI (1996). “Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today”, p.90, Ignatius Press

The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

Pope Benedict XVI
Generosity, Church, Needs
"Homily of his Holiness Benedict XVI". Holy Mass by Pope Benedict XVI for the 23rd World Youth Day at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

Pope Benedict XVI
Party, Political, Church
Pope Benedict XVI's Interview with The Journalists During The Flight to Mexico, w2.vatican.va. March 23, 2012.

How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

Pope Benedict XVI
Pride, Self, Church
"An Evangelizer on the Right,With His Eye on the Future". www.nytimes.com. March 2005.

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