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Osteria are a universal good.

— Ersilio Tonini

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Il futuro in ostaggio del pensiero malato, in Avvenire, 20 February 2009

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Good and Evil

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Democracy is entering into crisis, because it, I mean modern quantitative democracy, was conceived assuming that there were stable, fixed values, shared by all.

Poor are we, if we had hope in Christ, but without being sure that it is the Truth, if we had faith and hope in Christ only for this world: we would be the most miserable of men, as St. Paul says.

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