i feel like this should be trending on tumblr. this seems like a tumblr thing to trend
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Love Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth for many reasons, but today it's because he pointed out that the Parable of the Good Samaritan occurs in Luke shortly after a real town of flesh-and-blood Samaritans spurned him
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"Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him ...The morality that the Church teaches is not some special burden for Christians. It is the defense of man against the attempt to abolish him. If morality - as we have seen - is not the enslavement of man but his liberation, then the Christian faith is the advance post of human freedom."
-Joseph Ratzinger, Turning Point for Europe, 1994.
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pope benedict the xvi claims to be pro life but died anyways
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Burn in hell cunt
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“If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.”
~Pope Benedict XVI
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Former Pope Down!!!
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The only way [God] can redeem man, who was created free, is by means of a free "yes" to his will. In creating freedom, he made himself in a certain sense dependent upon man. His power is tied to the unenforceable "yes" of a human being.
- Pope Benedict XVI (Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, page 65)
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#OTD in 1628 – Founding of the Irish College in Rome. Among its former students was St Oliver Plunkett, who attended in the late 17th century.
The Irish College, Rome was founded on this date in 1628 by the Irish Franciscan, Fr Luke Wadding O.F.M. and the Italian Cardinal, Ludivico Ludovisi, a nephew of Pope Gregory XV, who died three years before the College was established. Having been appointed Cardinal Protector of Ireland, Ludovisi was concerned that his title would not be an empty one and when he was approached by Luke Wadding to…
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Anyone who has inwardly accepted suffering becomes more mature and more understanding of others, becomes more human. Anyone who has consistently avoided suffering does not understand other people; he becomes hard and selfish.
Pope Benedict
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