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"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
"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."
"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."
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
"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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"Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works."
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
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