Pope Benedict XVI Quotes about Evil

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Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

Pope Benedict XVI

Thinking, People, Evil

Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

Pope Benedict XVI

Children, Greatest Treasure, Evil

Pope Benedict XVI's address at a Meeting on Family and Life Issues In Latin America, w2.vatican.va. December 3, 2005.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

Pope Benedict XVI

Evil, Answers, Faces

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

Evil, Abortion, Catholic

Memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., 2004.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Pope Benedict XVI

Strong, Evil, Moral

The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

Pope Benedict XVI

Evil, Environmental, Progress

Catholic Church. Pope (2005-2013 : Benedict XVI), Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.18, Ignatius Press

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

Pope Benedict XVI

Reality, Light, Evil

Pope Benedict XVI Quotes about Evil

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