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"Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation."
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"In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about."
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"If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest."
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"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there."
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"I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it."
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"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."
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"The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture."
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"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."
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"I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing."
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"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel."
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"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."
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"There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue."
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"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it."
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"Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point."
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"Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation."
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"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level."
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"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity."
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"There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum."
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"The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places."
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