Pope Benedict
Pope Benedict
Benedict has been the regnal name of fifteen Roman Catholic popes. The name is derived from the Latin benedictus, meaning "blessed"...
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We wish to pray for peace in the Holy Land.
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Let us pray that the Holy Spirit illuminates, inspires and guides the work of the synod and pushes us to charity, agreement and the service of the truth.
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John Paul II died as he always lived, animated by the indomitable courage of faith, abandoning himself to God and entrusting himself to holy Mary.
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If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '. . . If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage'.
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The Holy Father, with his words and his works, has given us great things; but no less important is the lesson he gave us from the chair of suffering and silence.
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In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration.
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Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.
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True love does not eliminate legitimate differences, but harmonizes them in a superior unity, which is not imposed from the outside, but gives shape to the whole from inside.
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Either we make him a simple devout expression, or he is denied everything, he is banished from public life, thus losing all meaning.
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Those who were able to get close to him could almost touch with their hand his sound and solid faith.
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On March 24 I will hold a consistory, for which I will nominate the new members of the College of Cardinals.
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I am touched by this important appeal and I invite you to join it for peace in that troubled nation.
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No pope ever left us as many texts as he did; no pope in the past was able to visit all the world like he did and to speak directly to men of all continents. But in the end, he was struck by the path of suffering and silence.
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Lent is, in the end, through alms giving, the occasion for sincere sharing of gifts received with one's brothers and for attention to the needs of the poorest and abandoned ones.