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"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."
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"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
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"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."
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"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
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"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."
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"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation."
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"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ."
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"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
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"For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those."
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"The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church."
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"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."
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"Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church."
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"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."
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"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith."
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"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."
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"Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point."
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"I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there."
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