“I would like to underline the fact that, in the face of the shadows that obscure the horizon of today’s world, to assume responsibility for educating young people in knowledge of the truth, in fundamental values and virtues, is to look to the future with hope.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me – a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

“The world offers you comfort. You were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“The world offers you comfort. You were not made for comfort, you were made for greatness.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Society as a whole must defend the conceived child’s right to live and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstance find fulfillment in the decision to abort.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“I believe that the most important thing is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Before everything else, fidelity to the Church – One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“And so we ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own, for all that we have that is most our own and most intimate is staked on faith: our heart, our mind, our freedom, in a deeply personal relationship with the Lord at work within us.” –…