The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Pope Benedict XVIDear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.
Pope Benedict XVII, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.
Pope Benedict XVIAs I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation
Pope Benedict XVIThe Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide us as stewards of his creation. Precisely from within this framework, the Church considers matters concerning the environment and its protection intimately linked to the theme of integral human development.
Pope Benedict XVI