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Benedikt XVI. Berühmte Zitate

„In Jesus Christus schenkt Gott uns seine Liebe.“

Benedikt XVI.

Zum Angelusgebet am 24. Februar 2008, radiovaticana.org http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/ted/Articolo.asp?c=188750

„Aber wenn man nur Know-How weitergibt, nur beibringt, wie man Maschinen macht und mit ihnen umgeht, und wie man Verhütungsmittel anwendet, dann braucht man sich nicht zu wundern, dass am Schluss Krieg herauskommt und AIDS-Epidemien.“

Benedikt XVI.

auf die Frage nach AIDS und Überbevölkerung, TV-Interview mit ARD, ZDF, Deutscher Welle und Radio Vatikan, 5. August 2006, radiovaticana.org http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/ted/Articolo.asp?c=91050

„Die verschiedenen heute festzustellenden Auflösungstendenzen bezüglich der Ehe, wie uneheliche Lebensgemeinschaften und die »Ehe auf Probe«, bis hin zur Pseudo-Ehe zwischen Personen des gleichen Geschlechts sind hingegen Ausdruck einer anarchischen Freiheit, die sich zu Unrecht als wahre Befreiung des Menschen ausgibt.“

Benedikt XVI.

Zur Eröffnung der Pastoraltagung der Diözese Rom zum Thema Familie in der Lateranbasilika in Rom am 6. Juni 2005 vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2005/june/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20050606_convegno-famiglia_ge.html

„Weil der Mensch immer frei bleibt und weil seine Freiheit immer auch brüchig ist, wird es nie das endgültig eingerichtete Reich des Guten in dieser Welt geben.“

Benedikt XVI.

Enzyklika „Spe Salvi“ vom 30. November 2007 vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_ge.html

„Die Kultur Europas ist aus der Begegnung von Jerusalem, Athen und Rom – aus der Begegnung zwischen dem Gottesglauben Israels, der philosophischen Vernunft der Griechen und dem Rechtsdenken Roms entstanden. Diese dreifache Begegnung bildet die innere Identität Europas.“

Benedikt XVI.

Ansprache im deutschen Bundestag am 22. September 2011, vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2011/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20110922_reichstag-berlin_ge.html
Ähnlich schon Theodor Heuss am 16. September 1950: "Es gibt drei Hügel, von denen das Abendland seinen Ausgang genommen hat: Golgatha, die Akropolis in Athen, das Capitol in Rom. Aus allen ist das Abendland geistig gewirkt, und man darf alle drei, man muss sie als Einheit sehen." - Rede zur Einweihung der wieder errichteten Gebäude des Robert-Mayer-Gymnasiums und der Rosenauschule in Heilbronn. In: Reden an die Jugend, R. Wunderlich Tübingen 1956, S. 32.

„Ich möchte auch sagen, dass der Papst kein Orakel und […] nur in den seltensten Fällen unfehlbar ist.“

Benedikt XVI.

Ansprache an den Klerus der Diözese Aosta in der Pfarrkirche von Introd 25. Juli 2005 vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2005/july/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20050725_diocesi-aosta_ge.html

Benedikt XVI. Zitate und Sprüche

„Mozart ist schön, wie die Schöpfung schön ist.“

Benedikt XVI.

zitiert in Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Mozartjahr, m.faz.net 31. Dezember 2005 http://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/mozartjahr-wie-der-biss-auf-eine-mozartkugel-1305802.html

„Nach einem großen Papst Johannes Paul II. haben die Herren Kardinäle mich gewählt, einen einfachen und bescheidenen Arbeiter im Weinberg des Herrn.“

Benedikt XVI.

Erste Worte als Papst am 19. April 2005 an die Menschen auf dem Petersplatz vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/elezione/index_ge.htm

„Das jüdische Schrifttum und die jüdische Geschichte erfüllten sich ausschließlich in der Gestalt von Jesus Christus.“

Benedikt XVI.

Cardinal Ratzinger Divides Germans, New York Times, 15. April 2005

Geschichte , Christus

„Ich bin natürlich ein Bayer geblieben, auch als Bischof von Rom.“

Benedikt XVI.

bei seiner ersten Audienz, SPIEGEL ONLINE, 25. April 2005 http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/benedikt-xvi-zur-papstwahl-als-das-fallbeil-herabfiel-wurde-mir-ganz-schwindelig-a-353330.html (in der Wiedergabe seiner "Ansprache an die Pilger aus Deutschland" bei vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2005/april/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20050425_german-pilgrims_ge.html nicht enthalten)

Über Liebe

„Die grausamen Folgen religiös motivierter Gewalt stehen zu drastisch vor unser aller Augen. Gewalt richtet das Reich Gottes, das Reich der Menschlichkeit nicht auf. Sie ist ganz umgekehrt ein Lieblingsinstrument des Antichrist - wie religiös idealistisch sie auch motiviert sein mag. Sie dient nicht der Menschlichkeit, sondern der Unmenschlichkeit.“

Benedikt XVI.

Jesus von Nazareth, Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2011, S. 29

Über Gott

„Wenn die menschlichen Dinge so geordnet sind, dass Gott nicht anerkannt wird, wird der Mensch herabgewürdigt. Deshalb sind Gottesdienst und Recht letztlich nicht völlig voneinander zu trennen. Gott hat ein Recht auf eine Antwort des Menschen, auf den Menschen selbst, und wo dieses Recht Gottes völlig verschwindet, wird die Ordnung des Rechts unter den Menschen aufgelöst, weil es keinen Eckstein gibt, der das ganze Gebilde zusammenhält.“

Benedikt XVI.

Über Gott , Über Menschen

Benedikt XVI.: Zitate auf Englisch

“The ambiguity of progress becomes evident. Without doubt, it offers new possibilities for good, but it also opens up appalling possibilities for evil — possibilities that formerly did not exist. We have all witnessed the way in which progress, in the wrong hands, can become and has indeed become a terrifying progress in evil. If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth (cf. Eph 3:16; 2 Cor 4:16), then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.”

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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

“Through the Spirit's action may the young people gathered here have the courage to become saints! This is what the world needs more than anything else.”

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2008, Government House Ceremony (16 July 2008)

“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!”

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2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

“Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence”

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2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.”

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from "Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the end of the Millennium: An interview with Peter Seewald," by Ratzinger, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997
1990s

“According to the teaching of the Church, men and women with homosexual tendencies 'must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided'. They are called, like other Christians, to live the virtue of chastity. The homosexual inclination is however 'objectively disordered' and homosexual practices are 'sins gravely contrary to chastity'.In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection.”

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Doctrinal document Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons, July 31, 2003
2003

“It is impossible to interpret Jesus as a violent person. Violence is contrary to the Kingdom of God, it is a tool of the Antichrist. Violence never serves humanity, but dehumanizes.”

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Sunday Angelus (11 March 2012), as quoted in "Jesus not political but prophetic, Pope says" at the Catholic News Agency (11 March 2012) http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/jesus-not-political-but-prophetic-pope-says/
2012

“The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.”

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2008, Inter-religious Meeting (17 July 2008)

“The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reign supreme. Truth and justice must stand above my comfort and physical well-being, or else my life itself becomes a lie. In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.”

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2007

“The religious sense planted within the human heart leads us to meet the needs of others and to search for concrete ways to contribute to the common good. Religion has a special role in this regard, for it teaches people that authentic service requires sacrifice and self-discipline, which in turn must be cultivated through self-denial, temperance and a moderate use of the world's goods.”

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2008, Inter-religious Meeting (17 July 2008)

“That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now … which is significant for the world.”

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God and the World, published October 2000, as reported by National Catholic Reporter.
2000

“Among the fundamental values linked to women's actual lives is what has been called a 'capacity for the other.' Although a certain type of feminist rhetoric makes demands 'for ourselves,' women preserve the deep intuition of the goodness in their lives of those actions which elicit life, and contribute to the growth and protection of the other…. But, in the final analysis, every human being, man or woman, is destined to be 'for the other.'… Therefore, the promotion of women within society must be understood and desired as a humanization accomplished through those values, rediscovered thanks to women. Every outlook which presents itself as a conflict between the sexes is only an illusion and a danger; it would end in segregation and competition between men and women, and would promote a solipsism nourished by a false conception of freedom.”

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Doctrinal document On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World, July 31, 2004
2003

“Uncertainty over working conditions caused by mobility and deregulation, when it becomes endemic, tends to create new forms of psychological instability, giving rise to difficulty in forging coherent life-plans, including that of marriage.”

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2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”

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2003

“Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.”

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Quoted in Elise Harris, " Priest Swaps Clerical Hats with 'Sharp, Healthy' Benedict XVI http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/priest-swaps-clerical-hats-with-sharp-healthy-benedict-xvi", National Catholic Register (11 February 2013)
2013

“In the Church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.”

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2002

“Deeper understanding of the matter is bound to recognize that the Temple, as well as the synagogue, entered into Christian liturgy.”

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2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

“Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.”

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2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

“Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, we make of our possessions a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.”

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2008, Disadvantaged Youth (18 July 2008)

“While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.”

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Homily on the fourth anniversary of the death of John Paul II http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20090402_anniv-morte-gpii_en.html (2 April 2009)
2009

“Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!”

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2008, Youth Day Vigil (19 July 2008)

“Every economic decision has a moral consequence.”

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2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“There is something sinister that stems from the fact that freedom and tolerance are so often separated from truth. This is fuelled by the notion, widely held today, that there are no absolute truths to guide our lives. Relativism, by indiscriminately giving value to practically everything, has made 'experience' all-important.”

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2008, Papal Welcome (17 July 2008)

“If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '… If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage.”

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Letter to bishops, Sept. 14, 1994
1990s

“The time has come for me to say good-bye-or better, 'arrivederci!'. World Youth Day 2011 will take place in Madrid, Spain. Until then, let us continue to pray for one another, and let us joyfully bear witness to Christ before the world.”

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2008, Angelus following the Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

“Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”

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Inauguration homily, April 24, 2005
2005

“The market does not exist in the pure state. It is shaped by the cultural configurations which define it and give it direction.”

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2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“Projects for integral human development cannot ignore coming generations, but need to be marked by solidarity and inter-generational justice”

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2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“Christianity is not a highly complicated collection of so many dogmas that it is impossible for anyone to know them all; it is not something exclusively for academicians who can study these things, but it is something simple: God exists and God is close in Jesus Christ.”

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remarks http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2007/july/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20070724_clero-cadore_en.html at Auronzo di Cadore (24 July 2007)
2007