acknowledges the right of legitimate government to resort to the death penalty, but it challenges the appropriateness of doing so in a society now capable of defending the public order and ensuring the public's safety. |
As a student of history, I'm very happy to be in a place where our history is lifted up so much, |
He grew up in a town that was probably 30 percent Jewish, ... He came back to his hometown after the war and found that his schoolmates and his friends were no more. |
He seemed very grateful, |
I am confident that, by now, you understand many of the consequences that spring from an invitation having been extended to former Mayor Giuliani, |
I take this occasion to express publicly my apologies to all who have been victims and, in a very special way, to Mr. Stokes who is suffering, has suffered intensely because of the difficulty in which he now finds himself and which we find ourselves, ... I express my sympathy and to his family members, to all who suffered, because of what has been transpiring. |
If there's any kind of wrongdoing, it should be reported immediately to authorities and it should be dealt with promptly. That certainly is what we look for as we have come through a learning process that has been constructive and painful. |
in any event honoring former Mayor Giuliani. |
It was his idea to put in the Western Wall in Jerusalem the prayer asking God's forgiveness for what had been done by Christians in other ages, |
One cardinal told me while he was listening to the votes being counted, he said three rosaries. And I said two, and the third said, 'Well I prayed mine with greater piety, and it was just one.' |
There are two people -- my mother and Pope John Paul II -- that will always stay vividly in my mind, |
These years have been years of blessings, but also of learning, and there have been crosses, I don't deny that for an instant, ... But I say that in all of this, the joy and the consolation of the priestly ministry has exceeded any cross that came my way. |
we're hopeful the governor will hear our plea and act in a way that shows the quality of mercy. |