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Quotes by Cardinal

"A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor."

"In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty."

"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."

"Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground."

"To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings."

"However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate."

"The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism."

"We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption."

"The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity."

"In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa."
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