The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
Pope Benedict XVIEvery human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
Pope Benedict XVIThe fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right โ it is the very opposite. It is โa deep wound in societyโ.
Pope Benedict XVIWe are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
Pope Benedict XVISaint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.
Pope Benedict XVI