Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

• We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

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• We were looking for a ‘good shepherd,’ and instead we got a German shepherd.

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• 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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• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

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• The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

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• Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

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• Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

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• I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

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• I leave from where the apostle arrived.

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• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.

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• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

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• Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

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Pope Benedict XVI (32)

Birth:	16th April, 1927
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Pianist, Professor

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