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- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed…
- Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
- The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable…
- Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
- How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the…
- The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his…
- Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a…
- How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search of divine mercy,…
- The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the…
- The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of…
- The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his…
- The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather,…
- The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of…
- For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for…
- The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe,…
- I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters…
- The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by…
- The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine…
- At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.
- One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men…
- Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore,…
- We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and…
- Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for…
- The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for…
- The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his…
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