Benedikt XVI. citáty

„Pravou křesťanskou bohoslužbou je láska.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Zdroj: MÜHS, Wilhelm.: Slovom srdca, 365 myšlienok o láske. Bratislava: Nové Mesto, 2000, s. 134. ISBN 80-85487-61-6

„Nesmíme se spokojit s ekumenickými úspěchy v posledních letech, protože nemůžeme pít z jednoho poháru a být spolu shromážděni kolem oltáře.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

při náštěvě římského evangelického kostela
Zdroj: [Pápež Benedikt XVI. navštívil evanjelický kostol v Ríme, Křesťan dnes, 2010-03-16, 2010-05-26, http://cs.christiantoday.com/article/papez-benedikt-xvi-navstivil-evanjelicky-kostol/16572.htm]

„Církev není vězněm politických, rasových nebo kulturních dělících čar. Není možné ji porovnávat se státy nebo národními svazky.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Zdroj: [Pápež v kázni na sviatok Turíc: Cirkev je útočiskom v rozštiepenom svete, SME.sk, 2010-05-23, 2010-05-23, http://www.sme.sk/c/5388496/papez-v-kazni-na-sviatok-turic-cirkev-je-utociskom-v-rozstiepenom-svete.html]

„(na adresu kněží v celibátu) Zřeknutí se manželství a rodiny se musí chápat takto: Vzdávám se toho, co je lidsky vlastně nejnormálnější a také nejdůležitější. Vzdávám se toho, že sám rozšířím strom života dalším životem, že budu mít vlastní zemi života, a žiji ve víře, že mou zemí je Bůh. Tím pro druhé svědčím o nebeském království, činím tuto víru hodnověrnější. Nejen slovy, ale zvláštním způsobem existence tedy svědčím o Ježíši, o evangeliu, a touto formou svého života se mu dávám k dispozici.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Zdroj: Celibát, J. Ratzinger, Pastorace.cz http://www.pastorace.cz/Tematicke-texty/Celibat-Joseph-kardinal-Ratzinger.html

„Etické hodnocení církve ohledně rozvodu a potratu je jasné a dobře známé: jedná se o vážná pochybení, která porušují lidskou důstojnost, vyvolávají hlubokou nespravedlnost v lidských a sociálních vztazích a urážejí samotného Boha, který je garantem manželského svazku a autorem života.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Zdroj: http://www.christnet.cz/magazin/zprava.asp?zprava=15465 Papež označil rozvody a potraty za vážná pochybení

„V době největšího úspěchu se Evropa stává vnitřně prázdnou, je paralyzována ohrožující krizí, která ohrožuje její zdraví, je závislá na transplantacích.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Zdroj: Values in Times of Upheaval, 2005

„Statistika není mým bohem.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

„Pokrok je možný pouze ve společnosti, v níž existují morální hodnoty a silná přesvědčení.“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Přisuzované

„Nedoložené, nebo nedostatečně doložené výroky, v budoucnosti mohou být smazány“

—  Benedikt XVI.

Přisuzované

„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.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

from "Ratzinger denies Christianity 'superior' to Islam," Zenit.org via Catholic News, March 6, 2002
2002

„Life is not governed by chance; it is not random. Your very existence has been willed by God, blessed and given a purpose! Life is not just a succession of events or experiences. It is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom; it is in this - in truth, in goodness, and in beauty - that we find happiness and joy.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2008, Papal Welcome (17 July 2008)

„We have such difficulty understanding this renunciation today because the relationship to marriage and children has clearly shifted. To have to die without children was once synonymous with a useless life: The echoes of my own life die away, and I am completely dead. If I have children, then I continue to live in them; it's a sort of immortality through posterity. …“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

1990s

„In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

„If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women Religious and All the Lay Faithful On Christian Hope, 30 November 2007
2007

„The world needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading interior emptiness, unnamed fears, a quiet sense of despair. How many of our contemporaries have built broken and empty cisterns in a desperate search for meaning - the ultimate meaning that only love can give?…. The Church also needs this renewal! She needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit!“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

„After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith, and that also applies to the liturgy. It is not "manufactured" by the authorities. Even the pope can only be a humble servant of its lawful development and abiding integrity and identity. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition…. The greatness of the liturgy depends - we shall have to repeat this frequently — on its unspontaneity.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

„To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves — these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

In Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html (30 November 2007)
2007

„Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

„I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

The Public Square, by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things 1996
1990s