[The Catholic Church] holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church. |
A dimple on the chin, the devil within. |
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. |
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. |
Any port in a storm. |
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? |
Catholics, in their ecumenical work, must assuredly be concerned for their separated brethren, praying for them, keeping them informed about the Church, making the first approaches toward them. But their primary duty is to make a careful and honest appraisal of whatever needs to be done or renewed in the Catholic household itself, in order that its life may bear witness more clearly and faithfully to the teachings and institutions which have come to it from Christ through the Apostles. |
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. |
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. |
everyone else was a surprise, at least as measured by public speculation prior to the conclave. |
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. |
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. |
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother. |
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. |
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. |