Angelo Comastri Quotes
born 1943 Italy
Angelo Comastri (17 September 1943 –) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
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Those who love the truth understand the truth better, understand it sooner, understand it more.
The gift of counsel prevents a perpetually adolescent life: it is a gift that makes us adults.
Holy priests move history and set it on the right path.
There is a crisis of vocations, but first there is a crisis of life. Today, people no longer have children.
There is a need for something else that only the priest, as a man of God, can give. Ultimately, it is God that man lacks.
There is no cause-and-effect relationship between celibacy and paedophilia. Paedophilia is a perversion, a disease, a fragility that is also found in married people.
The priest lives in constant spiritual tension, but the scenario in which he lives is anything but exhilarating. If he is unable to defend himself, he stumbles in the mud.
True theologians are saints: a recent and admirable example is Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, who reached a point of synthesis of all revealed truth and was proclaimed Doctor of the Church.
Pain undoubtedly frightens everyone. But when it is enlightened by faith it becomes a way to cut back selfishness, banalities and frivolities. What’s more, we Christians live pain in communion with the Crucified Jesus: clinging to Him, we fill our pain with love and transform it into a force that challenges and overcomes the selfishness that is still present in the world.