For me, it is one of the ‘signs of the times’ that the idea of God’s mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost – and that explains their missionary commitment – in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
I use both the ‘I’ and the ‘we.’ For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church’s communion. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. Pope Benedict XVI Read Quote
