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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 get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question."

"Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation."

"When everybody contributes a change to what he or she notices, it is then we will change our world."

"Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating."

"There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point."
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