Around the world Quote by Anna Quindlen

“The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved, and even…

— Michael Coren

Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.

— Wendy Long

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

— Kerry Kennedy

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

— Victor Hugo

Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The…

— Henry D. Moyle

The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

— Victor Hugo

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,…

— Frank McCourt

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

— Rich Mullins

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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…

— Karl Lehmann