Greg, from Great Britain: "Among other things, I’ve read quite a lot of Benedict XVI’s writings and I think he’s a very profound and great writer. But I think he’s much more relevant and knows much more about the modern world than most people realise - so I'm principally thinking of his idea of the dictatorship of relativism. I've been at university for 5 years now and to me it's extremely obvious that he was completely right about this …just in terms of ideas of free speech, society's obsession with relativism and the fear of the absolute means that anyone who expresses or wishes otherwise are deemed intolerant or bigoted. … I think Benedict is an extremely loving, caring and cheerful man in his own way, but we don't see it so much, and he's able to express it in words like no-one else I've ever read." BXVI, speech in Westminster Hall, London, 17 September 2010: ". The central question at issue, then, is this: where is the ethical foundation for political choices to be found? The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers – still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion – but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles. This “corrective” role of religion vis-à-vis reason is not always welcomed, though, partly because distorted forms of religion, such as sectarianism and fundamentalism, can be seen to create serious social problems themselves. And in their turn, these distortions of religion arise when insufficient attention is given to the purifying and structuring role of reason within religion. It is a two-way process. Without the corrective supplied by religion, though, reason too can fall prey to distortions, as when it is manipulated by ideology, or applied in a partial way that fails to take full account of the dignity of the human person. Such misuse of reason, after all, was what gave rise to the slave trade in the first place and to many other social evils, not least the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. This is why I would suggest that the world of reason and the world of faith – the world of secular rationality and the world of religious belief – need one another and should not be afraid to enter into a profound and ongoing dialogue, for the good of our civilization. .." Music by Amanda Vernon. For much more, visit Totus2us.com - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy Papas - St John Paul II, Papa Benedetto and Pope Francis.

Angelika, from Germany: "How can you not love Pope Benedict? He’s such a lovely man. I don’t think there are many people like him who are so humble yet so great at the same time. He’s such a wonderful theologian, deep thinker, great scholar and yet he never even mentions it. He's never proud and never boasts about. I think when he resigned a year ago I think that was probably the most humble thing to do: accepting that you can't go on like that, that your task is going to be too much for you, that it's too big for you, and yet not just pretending to do it and not doing it well, but instead resigning and just admitting that you're weak. That's incredible. Yeh, I do love him." Music by Ooberfuse - official track for papal visit to UK: Heart's Cry. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our Holy Fathers - Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedetto and Pope Francis.

Collette, from England, talks about how Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic pilgrimage to the UK in 2010 touched her: "Three years ago I was a lapsed Catholic, living a life at complete odds to the Church, very far away from the Church. Pope Benedict came to England on his visit and through his words and his actions, Christ's love really broke through into my life and I had a really powerful conversion experience. I'll never forget his words at Bellahouston Park where he asked the young people to lead a life worthy of their vocation. He didn't just ask, he urged the young people to lead a life worthy of their vocation. And for me in my heart I knew there was something more in my life. A few days later I felt Christ's love in such a powerful way through his instrument Pope Benedict, when he told the young people at Twickenham, 'Dear young people, God loves you so much more than you could ever imagine and by far the best thing for you is to grow in holiness because God wants what's best for you.' And in that moment, through God's servant Benedict XVI, through Peter here on earth, I learnt the two greatest loves of my life: 1) that I am loved by God, that I am his child and He loves me and 2) that I am called to holiness and this has completely changed my life." Music by Ooberfuse - official track for papal visit to UK: Heart's Cry. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our Holy Fathers - Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedetto and Pope Francis.

Ulrich, from Germany, after his response in English talks a bit in German about his JMJ experience at WJT Köln 2005: "I had this great luck to discover the faith especially with our Pope Benedict. So I read a lot of his books, a lot of his homilies, and I actually had the great luck to see him twice personally: once in Cologne (at World Youth Day) and once in Rome. Yeh, I really felt deeply impressed by his confrontation with the modern world and his explanations for us Christians: how to rediscover the faith, especially with this task of the apostolic mission, confronting with this world who right now is really apart from faith. But we know that there is such a strong link between faith and reason, so that's a great, great, unforgettable achievement of our Pope Benedict" Music by Amanda Vernon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our Holy Fathers - Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedetto and Pope Francis.

Brandon, from the United States: "What I liked about Pope Benedict is that he was such a prolific writer, the way he wrote and how he synthesised all of his thought and really centred around the person of Jesus in a very wonderful way." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Music by Amanda Vernon.

Miriam, from Germany: "For me, it’s a really big grace to be here in Rome during the last days of the pontificate of Pope Benedict. He was a real father for me, because he was a holy man and he knew how to love the faith. ..I started to read what he said, to get to know him better because I studied for 9 months in Rome. I was there every Sunday at the Angelus and it was just so good to hear him and to hear his interpretation of the Gospel, to hear how he’s living his prayer life. Like he told us during the last audiences, and now ithe last audience when he was so personal, when he really told us how his heart, how he loves God and that he feels that the Church is alive, the Church is young. We are not alone, he’s not alone, because God is with us. It was so touching and if felt like ‘yeh, there’s hope, there’s a great hope for us’." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Music by Amanda Vernon.

Erin, from the United States: "I want to thank Papa Benedict for his witness and for his love for the Church. In both ways it’s the way he lives his life and his vocation is inspiring to me because he shows us what a saint right now can look like and how unique everyone’s call is. But what is the same throughout all is that we're all called to listen to the will of God and to say yes, whatever it is. From that will come so much beauty and so much love, and that is how the Church should live." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Music by Amanda Vernon.

Mary, from the United States: "I’d like to thank Pope Benedict for all that he has done in the past 8 years as pope. I think one of the most powerful things or ways that he has had an impact on me is actually with his resignation. It is such an act of humility and self-sacrifice, that he really is showing his love for the Church in a new way. I think I’ll remember him more fondly for this gift that he’s giving to the Church, but I also appreciate his work in the new evangelization and his promotion of that. He has just been such a blessing for the Church and I just hope we get another pope as wonderful as he is. So thank you, Pope Benedict. We love you." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Music by Amanda Vernon.

Alice, from England: "In 2010 I was lucky enough to meet the Holy Father when he came to the UK on his state visit. Listening to what he said to the young people gathered on the steps of Westminster, and being lucky enough to have been given blessing by him, it was really moving and his words really struck a chord with myself and a lot of young people I spoke to that day. I think it really helped the young people of the UK to bear witness more easily to their faith." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Music by Amanda Vernon.

Ben, from England: "I went to Rome 3 weeks ago and had an audience with the Pope and it was amazing. It was just amazing to see how many people were there and how many people love the Pope. I work for Kimberley, which is a retreat centre, and we got a shout out from the Pope, so it was really cool and made me think more in detail about the Pope and sort of made me feel like there was something bigger out there." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Music by Amanda Vernon.