"It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European l..." — Pope Benedict XVI

It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.