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We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In him the new human existence became reality and we can truly become new if we deliver ourselves

We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In him the new human existence became reality and we can truly become new if we deliver ourselves into his hands and let ourselves be moulded by him.

Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus, Reality, Men
Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “Holy Days: Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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.

Pope Benedict XVI
Art, Reality, Men

This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.

Pope Benedict XVI
Reality, Hands, Understanding

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.

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

Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

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Change, Reality, Climate
Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

Pope Benedict XVI
Reality, Light, Evil

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