Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Hans KüngTags: christianity religion church catholicism priesthood priests celibacy
The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?
Hans KüngTags: christianity religion church catholicism clergy protestantism pope contraception priesthood priests eucharist celibacy ecumenism women-clergy
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Fulton J. SheenTags: philosophy christianity spirituality catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. SheenTags: society philosophy christianity religion spirituality catholicism catholic sociology
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
Fulton J. SheenTags: morality ethics philosophy christianity catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Fulton J. SheenTags: politics philosophy christianity catholicism communism catholic
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Fulton J. SheenTags: politics philosophy christianity god democracy spirituality catholicism catholic rights
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
Fulton J. SheenTags: philosophy christianity spirituality catholicism catholic egocentrism self-perfection self-surrender
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
Fulton J. SheenTags: philosophy christianity judgement spirituality criticism catholicism catholic
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
Fulton J. SheenTags: happiness morality christianity religion church catholicism unhappiness discipline anti-religious imoral
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