[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
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 XVIGod is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.
Pope Benedict XVIWhen, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.
Pope Benedict XVIAdvent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.
Pope Benedict XVI