Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.
Pope Benedict XVIThe freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
Pope Benedict XVIGod no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.
Pope Benedict XVIMusic has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.
Pope Benedict XVIThe capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
Pope Benedict XVI