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"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."
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"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."
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"A church debt is the devil's salary."
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."
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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 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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"Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day."
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"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."
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"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."
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"The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light."
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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."
Faith
"Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point."
Participation
"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."
Future
"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."
Time
"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."
Church
"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."
Life
"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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"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."
Agreement
"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."
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