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"Over the course of many years in the service of our mother the Church, let me tell you — there is one sin which I have come to fear above all others: Certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end: "" he cried out, in his agony, at the ninth hour on the Cross. Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on."
"What has he offered you? Secretary of State? Five times I cast my vote for you, Aldo. But I was wrong. You lack the courage required to be Pope."
"Is this what we're reduced to? To vote for the least worst option?"
"Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears."
"The church is not the past. It is what we do next."
"I am what God made me."
"I think again of your sermon. I know what it is to exist... between the world's certainties."
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"Stanley Tucci - Cardinal Aldo Bellini"
"John Lithgow - Cardinal Joseph Tremblay"
"Sergio Castellitto - Cardinal Goffredo Tedesco"
"Isabella Rossellini - Sister Agnes"
"Lucian Msamati - Cardinal Joshua Adeyemi"
"Carlos Diehz - Cardinal Vincent Benitez"
"BrÃan F. O'Byrne - Monsignor Raymond O'Malley"
"Jacek Koman - Archbishop Janusz Woźniak"
"Merab Ninidze - Cardinal Sabbadin"
"Thomas Loibl - Archbishop Mandorff"
"Loris Loddi - Cardinal Villanueva"
"Balkissa Maiga - Sister Shanumi"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.