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The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

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Educational, School, Important

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In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

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Land, People, Today

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Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

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Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

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Guarantees That, Rights, Justice

Statement to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 18 April 2008, New York, NY

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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

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War, Exercise, Punishment

"War and Capital Punishment" by Jimmy Akin, www.catholic.com. March 2, 2005.

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Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

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Jesus, Path, Obedience

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Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again, dear friends, we catch a further glimpse of how much the Holy Spirit offers our world: love which dispels uncertainty; love which overcomes the fear of betrayal; love which carries eternity within; the true love which draws us into a unity that abides!

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Life, Betrayal, Love Is

Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Vigil with The Young People, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

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Temptation, Special, Needs

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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

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Passion, Sacrifice, Blood

Sermon of Benedict XVI, w2.vatican.va. September 18, 2010.

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You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

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Sorry, Abuse, Church

"Pope Benedict's apology" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!

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Love Is, Horizon, World

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Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.

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Ocean, Order, Erosion

Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XXIII World Youth Day in Sydney Harbour, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 17, 2008.

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These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

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America, United States, Hurricanes

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If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!

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Christian, Son, Joy

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It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.

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Christian, Islam, World

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From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

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Men, Rivers, Water

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Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

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Assessment, Agreement, People

Message Of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI For The Celebration Of The World Day Of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" (Mt 2: 5), and, enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.

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Faith, Stars, Inspiration

Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XX World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, w2.vatican.va. August 18, 2005.

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That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.

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Responsibility, People, Humanity

"Benedict XVI to pray for improved Sunday worship and evangelization efforts". www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 30, 2009.

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All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

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Prayer, Love You, Saint

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An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

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Beautiful, Church, Missionary

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Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

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Church, Moral, Should

"Transcript from papal plane en route to Mexico". www.ncronline.org. March 26, 2012.

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Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating with the sacrifice of life itself... This martyrdom of ordinary life constitutes a particularly important witness in the secularized society of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love which every Christian, like Paul, must fight without flagging: the race to spread the Gospel that involves us until our death. May the Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us in our daily witness.

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Christian, Queens, Stars

Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus, w2.vatican.va. October 28, 2007.

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Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

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Self, Analysis, Lasts

Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Introduction to Christianity”, p.73, Ignatius Press

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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

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Christian, Israel, Hands

"God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, October 06, 2000.

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