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• Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Relation

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.223, Fortress Press

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• The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

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  Essence, Encounters, Speak

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• 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.

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• Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

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  Fashion, Jesus, Voice

  Pope Benedict XVI, Irene Grassl (1992). “Co-workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.359, Ignatius Press

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• Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

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  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual 'combat' which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Easter

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• A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

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  School, Catholic, Saint

  Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to pupils, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

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• When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.

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  Mean, Names, People

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• Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.

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  Heart, Mean, Fullness Of Life

  "God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Peter Seewald, 2002.

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• There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.

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  Beautiful, Encounters, Speak

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• A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
  present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
  candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
  and/or euthanasia.

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  Evil, Abortion, Catholic

  Memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., 2004.

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• 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

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• If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

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  Heart, Secret, World

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• We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

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  Moving, Goal, Ego

  "Profile: Pope Benedict XVI". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2005.

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• Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Gift From God

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• God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

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  Father, Silence, And Love

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• What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

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  Mean, Sunday, Doe

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

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  Jesus, Church, Communion

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• Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

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  Children, Humility, Light

  "Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2012.

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• 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.

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• Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

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  Father, Heart, Names

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• Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

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  Passing Away, World, Eternity

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.78, Ignatius Press

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• It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

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  People, Doctrine, Helping

  "Conservatives Catholics Disappointed At Pope Benedict’s Papacy" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

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  Greatness, Comfort, Way

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address To The German Pilgrims Who Had Come To Rome For The Inauguration Ceremony Of The Pontificate, w2.vatican.va. April 25, 2005.

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• We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

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  Grace, Mercy, Power Of God

  "Why is the pope resigning now?" By Eric Marrapodi, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2013.

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