“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

Source: Movie The Two Popes, Pope Benedict as Anthony Hopkins

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265th Pope of the Catholic Church 1927

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