Here is a collection of notable quotes from Pope Benedict XVI from homilies, documents, messages and speeches from 2005 to 2013, the years he served as pope.
Notable quotes from Pope Benedict XVI
Christina Capecchi: The first notes: when music and prayer converge
As Guido Monaco, an 11th-century Italian, poured over the manuscripts in the abbey’s library, he wondered: Why couldn’t music be written down and read like the words in a book?
Catholic media must be in communion with pope, cardinal tells EWTN
Media outlets that identify as Catholic must live “in a spirit of communion” with the pope, especially at a time of “overly dramatic debates, also within the Church, which do not even spare the person and the magisterium of the pontiff,” the Vatican secretary of state said.
St. Titus Brandsma: Lessons in faith and courage
Like Jesus who died on the cross, it is by his actions more than his appearance that we know and celebrate the work of St. Titus Brandsma, canonized May 15 by Pope Francis.
Pope entrusts new relationship with Indigenous to three holy women
St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus; Mary, his mother; and St. Kateri, the daughter of a Mohawk father and Algonquin mother “can help us come together and start to weave anew a reconciliation that can uphold the rights of the most vulnerable in our midst and look at history without resentment or forgetfulness,” the pope said.
Mary Marrocco: Truth and mercy meet on the cross
How do we respond when people we care about do things that seem misguided, faulty or fraught with peril?
Evangelization: It’s time to take your turn
Catholicism is grounded in — the truth about who you are and who God is and, ultimately, what you and I ought to do with our lives.
Father Kenneth Doyle: Substituting penitential practice?/ Creating fake identity
Q. I have always observed the fast and abstinence rules during Lent, but this year I find myself in a weird situation. Last summer, I decided […]