Selected quotes of Pope Benedict XVI offered daily for prayer and reflection….

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Religion
 


The evangelization of culture is all the more important in our times, when a ‘dictatorship of relativism’ threatens to obscure the unchanging truth about man’s nature, his destiny and his ultimate good. There are some who now seek to exclude religious belief from public discourse, to privatize it or even to paint it as a threat to equality and liberty. Yet religion is in fact a guarantee of authentic liberty and respect, leading us to look upon every person as a brother or sister.

 
Homily
Bellahouston Park
Glasgow, Scotland
16 September 2010

 
 
 
Religion
 


Genuine adherence to religion, far from narrowing our minds, widens the horizon of human understanding. It protects civil society from the excesses of the unbridled ego which tend to absolutise the finite and eclipse the infinite; it ensures that freedom is exercised hand in hand with truth, and it adorns culture with insights concerning all that is true, good and beautiful.

 
Address
Talal Mosque
Amman, Jordan
9 May 2009