"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. … Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and "swept along by every wind of teaching," looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties. ... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith."
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Pope Benedict XVI, in a Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals, during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals (18 April 2005)
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