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"...
definitive limbo since truth
Limbo has never been a definitive truth of the faith. Personally, I would let it drop, since it has always been only a theological hypothesis.
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The very same pastoral sensibility in the face of real situations must end up safeguarding the truth and applying the necessary rules to safeguard it.
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I am not alone. I do not have to carry alone what in truth I could never carry alone.
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It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
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Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.
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Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
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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.
holy peace pray wish
We wish to pray for peace in the Holy Land.
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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.