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" At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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" A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. "

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" Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible. "

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" Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions. "

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" I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

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" The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity. "

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" My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family. "

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" The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world. "

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" Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way. "

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" You can't talk about what you haven't felt. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Above all, 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

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

Pope Benedict XVI

" In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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

" Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own. "

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" To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses. "

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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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