"The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power."

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For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.

— Pope Benedict XVI