Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of magic mushrooms… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
