Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVIserved as pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013. He was elected pope on 19 April 2005, was inaugurated on 24 April 2005 and resigned from the office on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election occurred in a papal conclave following the death of Pope John Paul II...
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Precisely for this reason, St. Ignatius wanted young Jesuits to be formed for long years in the spiritual life and in studies.
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His illness, which he faced with courage, made us all aware of human pain, of every physical and spiritual pain; he gave suffering dignity and value, showing that man isn't just worthy because of his efficiency and how he appears, but because of himself, because he is created and loved by God.
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We will receive the pilgrim Cross, coming from Cologne, and remember with grateful hearts, a year after his death, my great predecessor, John Paul II.
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To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.
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I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.
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Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.
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Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.
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We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
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We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
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The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
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Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.
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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.
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Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.
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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.