Pope Benedict XVI Quotes About Catholicism

Quotes about: Catholicism

• Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Joy, Christ, Catholicism

  Pope Benedict XVI (2010). “Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass”, p.25, Ignatius Press

• We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Shepherds, Good Shepherd

• We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Evolution, Results

• It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Women, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.199, Ignatius Press

• Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Excellence, Church

• Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Unity, Shepherds

  "Mass, Imposition of the Pallium And Conferral of the Fisherman's Ring For the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry Of the Bishop of Rome". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the St. Peter's Square, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

• We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
  We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Catholic, Ego

  Pope Benedict XVI's Homily during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

• Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Wish, Trying, Too Much

  Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions”, p.116, Ignatius Press

• It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Doctrine, Helping

  "Conservatives Catholics Disappointed At Pope Benedict’s Papacy" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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