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Benedict XVI’s call for the cessation of the war in Libya

by Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI's call for the cessation of the war in Libya

Vatican City | 27 March 2011
After the Angelus, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has read the following statement in Italian:
In the face of the ever more dramatic news that is coming from Libya, my trepidation for the safety of the civil population grows as does my apprehension for the developments of the situation, which is now marked by the use of arms. In moments of great tension there is a greater urgency to the exigency to have recourse to every means at the disposal of diplomatic action and to support even the (...)

Address of Benedict XVI to the World Summit on Food Security

by Benedict XVI

Address of Benedict XVI to the World Summit on Food Security

London (United Kingdom) | 16 November 2009
Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen!
1. I was very pleased to receive an invitation from Mr Jacques Diouf, Director General of FAO, to speak at the opening session of this World Summit on Food Security. I greet him warmly and I thank him for his kind words of welcome. I greet the distinguished authorities present and all the participants. Echoing the sentiments of my venerable predecessors Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, I should like once more to express my esteem for the work of FAO, (...)

“The Christian Faith has something to Say about Morality”

by Benedict XVI

22 April 2005
Pope’s John Paul II is much attached to France for he owes it his theological formation. I particularly remember his visit during the commemoration of Clodoveo’s baptism anniversary as a moment of flowering for France’s baptism. The “elder daughter of the Western Church”, just to call it this way, has given a lot to the Church. The pope is worried about the ideological laicism strongly shown in our days. We favor the laicism but we oppose an ideological laicism that threatens to confine the (...)

“Benedict’s Answers to Big Questions”

by Benedict XVI

22 April 2005
Communion should be a conscious decision based on one’s worthiness to do so.
The Church teaches that abortion or euthanasia is a serious sin and the encyclical Evangelium Vitae asks Christians to oppose these methods. If the law is unjust, it should not be obeyed and they should even oppose civil laws which are contrary to God’s law. It is never licit to cooperate formally in evil and this cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or legal (...)

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Address of Benedict XVI to the World Summit on Food Security

“The Christian Faith has something to Say about Morality”

“Benedict’s Answers to Big Questions”

Benedict XVI’s call for the cessation of the war in Libya