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"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."

"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

"You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church."

"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
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"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."

"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."

"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."

"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny."

"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."

"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."
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