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In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak.
Cartias in Vertitate (2009)
Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith
What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.
Summorum Pontificum (2007)
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 one's own desires.
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 with the European Constitution.
It is impossible to interpret Jesus as a violent person. Violence is contrary to the Kingdom of God, it is a tool of the Antichrist. Violence never serves humanity, but dehumanizes.
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves — these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.
Once the methodology has picked history to death by its dissection, who can reawaken it so that it can live and speak to me?
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis (1988)
Because God loves us, because He wants us to grow into truth, He must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us
In the end, one no longer learns what the text says, but what it should have said.
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis (1988)
Spiritual processes do not follow the rule of zoological genealogies.
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis (1988)
Deeper understanding of the matter is bound to recognize that the Temple, as well as the synagogue, entered into Christian liturgy.
The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
A New Testament cut off from the Old is automatically abolished since it exists, as its very title suggests, because of the unity of both.
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis (1988)
Every economic decision has a moral consequence.
Cartias in Vertitate (2009)
The market does not exist in the pure state. It is shaped by the cultural configurations which define it and give it direction.
Cartias in Vertitate (2009)
Relations between States and within States are correct to the extent that they respect the truth. When, instead, truth is violated, peace is threatened, law is endangered, then, as a logical consequence, forms of injustice are unleashed.
The primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity
Cartias in Vertitate (2009)
Pure objectivity is an absurd abstraction. It is not the uninvolved who comes to knowledge; rather, interest itself is a requirement for the possibility of coming to know.
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis (1988)