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[Pedophiles must be] excluded from any possibility of access to young people, because we know this is an illness where free will does not work. We must protect these people against themselves.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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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.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

One must not fear truth, because it is a friend of man and of his freedom

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