The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.
Pope Benedict XVIFor in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.
Pope Benedict XVIThe fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.
Pope Benedict XVIIt is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.
Pope Benedict XVI