Pope Benedict Quotes

"Those who were able to get close to him could almost touch with their hand his sound and solid faith."

"In the light of this common mission, we cannot not denounce and combat with decisiveness the hate and incomprehension, the injustices and the violence that continue to sow worry in the soul of men and women of good will."

"The very same pastoral sensibility in the face of real situations must end up safeguarding the truth and applying the necessary rules to safeguard it."

"I am not alone. I do not have to carry alone what in truth I could never carry alone."

"Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years."

"It is just one year since his pontificate entered its final phase, full of suffering and yet triumphant and truly paschal."

"Thank you for your service of 500 years!"

"If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '. . . If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage'."

"tireless witness of the Gospel of peace and reconciliation."

"I am touched by this important appeal and I invite you to join it for peace in that troubled nation."

"Contemporary societies, while gifted with many means, do not always manage to facilitate the mission of parents, both on the level of spiritual and moral motivation and on that of the practical conditions of life."