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These nuns at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrude are making the communion wafers for Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic visit to Germany this month.

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If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined—good—state of the world, man’s freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all. What this means is that every generation has the task of engaging anew in the arduous search for the right way to order human affairs; this task is never simply completed. Yet every generation must also make its own contribution to establishing convincing structures of freedom and of good, which can help the following generation as a guideline for the proper use of human freedom; hence, always within human limits, they provide a certain guarantee also for the future. In other words: good structures help, but of themselves they are not enough. Man can never be redeemed simply from outside.

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Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi, par. 24b-25 (via badwolfcomplex)

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We are not some casual or meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.

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Pope Benedict XVI (via rainyautumntwilight)

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Man’s social nature makes it evident that the progress of the human person and the advance of society itself hinge on one another. For the beginning, the subject and the goal of all social institutions is and must be the human person which for its part and by its very nature stands completely in need of social life. (Cf. Gen. 1:28) Since this social life is not something added on to man, through his dealings with others, through reciprocal duties, and through fraternal dialogue he develops all his gifts and is able to rise to his destiny.

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Gaudiem et Spes: ”Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World” (via belovedmegan)

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Agnostics, who are constantly exercised by the question of God, those who long for a pure heart but suffer on account of their sin, are closer to the Kingdom of God than believers whose life of faith is “routine” and who regard the Church merely as an institution, without letting it touch their hearts, or letting the faith touch their hearts

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Pope Benedict XVI

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If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.

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Pope Benedict XVI (via catholicanswers)

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The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the *saints* the Church has produced and the *art* which has grown in her womb. Better witness is borne to the Lord by the splendor of holiness and art which have arisen in the community of believers than by the clever excuses which apologetics has come up with to justify the dark sides which, sadly, are so frequent in the Church’s human history. If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection? No, Christians must not be too easily satisfied. They must make their Church into a place where beauty — and truth — is at home. Without this the world will become the first circle of hell…. A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

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Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (1985)

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And we too can only serve the Lord energetically if our faith thrives and is present in abundance.

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Today we have Peter Herbeck from Renewal Ministries with his program Fire on the Earth and today’s topic is “Die in your Sins.” Shortly after that we have “all things Cuba.”

POPE’ S CUBA VISIT: We have a full report from our correspondent on Pope Benedict’s second day in Cuba which included a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre and a private meeting in Havana with the Cuban leader Raul Castro…
FATHER LOMBARDI’S FEEDBACK: The Vatican spokesperson, Fr. Federico Lombardi, shares with us his impressions of the papal visit to Cuba, saying the Church is now a very active presence on the island….
CARITAS IN CUBA: An officer from Caritas Internationalis who recently visited Cuba tells us how he was struck by the level of poverty on the island and we learn what Caritas is doing to alleviate the plight of the poor and needy….
PAPAL VISIT: A CUBAN VIEWPOINT: How do Cubans themselves view this visit by Pope Benedict to their homeland and what are they expecting it to achieve? We speak to a Cuban-born priest based in Miami to find out more….

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