Showing posts with label Benedict XVI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benedict XVI. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 July 2013

The Light of Faith

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Pope Francis’ first encyclical entitled "Lumen fidei" or “The Light of Faith” was released Friday at a press conference in th...
Thursday, 9 May 2013

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him

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"“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” ( 1 Jn 4:16 ). These words from the First Letter of J...
Monday, 6 May 2013

Fraternity and peace

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"I would recall the prayer asking God to make us instruments of his peace, to be able to bring his love wherever there is hatred, hi...
Friday, 3 May 2013

There is a need to teach people to love one another

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In the end, we see clearly the need to propose and promote a pedagogy of peace. This calls for a rich interior life, clear and valid moral ...
Sunday, 28 April 2013

True education for peace

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" Cultural institutions, schools and universities have a special mission of peace. They are called to make a notable contribution not ...
Thursday, 25 April 2013

Peacemakers are called to cultivate a passion for the common good of the family and for social justice

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"I wish to reaffirm forcefully that the various peacemakers are called to cultivate a passion for the common good of the family and f...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Peacemakers are called to work together in a spirit of solidarity, from the local to the international level

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" In the economic sector, states in particular need to articulate policies of industrial and agricultural development concerned with...
Friday, 19 April 2013

True and lasting success is attained through the gift of ourselves

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"In order to emerge from the present financial and economic crisis – which has engendered ever greater inequalities – we need people, ...
Saturday, 13 April 2013

A new model of development is needed

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"In many quarters it is now recognized that a new model of development is needed, as well as a new approach to the economy. Both inte...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013

The right to work

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"One of the social rights and duties most under threat today is the right to work. The reason for this is that labour and the rightful...
Monday, 8 April 2013

Social rights and duties are fundamental for the full realization of other rights and duties

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Peacemakers must also bear in mind that, in growing sectors of public opinion, the ideologies of radical liberalism and technocracy are spr...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

The path to the attainment of the common good and to peace

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"The path to the attainment of the common good and to peace is above all that of respect for human life in all its many aspects, begin...
Monday, 1 April 2013

In the pursuit of peace

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"Peace is principally the attainment of the common good in society at its different levels, primary and intermediary, national, intern...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Peace is an order enlivened and integrated by love, in such a way that we feel the needs of others as our own, share our goods with others and work throughout the world for greater communion in spiritual values

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"Peace is an order enlivened and integrated by love, in such a way that we feel the needs of others as our own, share our goods with o...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Fundamental to keep in mind our transcendent dimension

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"To become authentic peacemakers, it is fundamental to keep in mind our transcendent dimension and to enter into constant dialogue wi...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

The ethics of peace is an ethics of fellowship and sharing

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" Jesus’ beatitude tells us that peace is both a messianic gift and the fruit of human effort. In effect, peace presupposes a humanism...
Thursday, 21 March 2013

The desire for peace

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'The desire for peace corresponds to a fundamental moral principle, namely, the duty and right to an integral social and communitarian ...
Monday, 11 March 2013

Growing inequality between rich and poor

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"O ur times, marked by globalization with its positive and negative aspects, as well as the continuation of violent conflicts and thr...
Sunday, 10 March 2013

Construction of a worldwide community, with a corresponding authority — literally motivated by love — and precisely by love for the common good of the human family

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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Consistor...
Saturday, 9 March 2013

Love and truth

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"It is true that Jesus was a prophet of love, but love has a truth of its own. Indeed, love and truth are two names of the same reality...