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"Fonte was, however, of too cautious and unambitious a nature to accept a distinction which entailed a compromised course of action."

"Q: The meeting of SEC’s Permanent Commission took place last February 23-24. One of the topics addressed was the implementation of Pope Francis’ Letter for the institution of the laity — men and women — as lectors and acolytes. What does this approval imply, which recognizes the co-responsibility of all the baptized in the Church and, in particular, for the mission of the laity and of women? A: I believe that the Holy Father’s decision makes more active the participation of all the laity in the celebration of the Liturgy. I believe that it’s a question of normalization of a very concrete situation, given that over the last years women have already exercised this role in Liturgical celebrations. In fact, in no. 103 of Querida Amazonia, "Pope Francis affirmed: “In a Synodal Church women, who in fact play a central role in Amazonian communities, should be able to access functions including ecclesial services that don’t require Holy Orders, enabling them to express better their own place. It should be remembered that these services imply stability, public recognition, and the sending by the Bishop.""

"Social regeneration involves not only the economy but also the education of values; family, school and the Church can do much if they agree. Today school proposes anti-value courses. Public education can insist on proposing the Constitution, but if it touches the moral issues, issues of their own parents, then it imposes the values of political power. It is something very serious."

"The bishop of Antequera, Antonio Bergosa y Jordan, a stanch royalist, who had been promoted to archbishop of Mexico and was making preparations to depart for his new field of episcopal duties, was requested by the ayuntamiento and some prominent citizens of Oajaca, at this critical period not to leave the diocese, where his influence would have great weight. He not only acquiesced and influenced public opinion in favor of the royal cause with his pastorals and sermons, but raised and armed a body of ecclesiastics."

"Much courage is needed to make a decision of this importance, and I'm sure that he thought about it very thoroughly. So we ask the Lord to continue to accompany and bless him for the immense good he has done. Meanwhile I lament that in the future we won't have the lucidity and clarity of his teaching as Pontiff, although we will be able to continue to profit from the books, addresses and documents he has left us."

"God Almighty who knows everything is with you. The heavenly Father helps all those who face such suffering like the tsunami disaster."

"You know we are all responsible for building peace in the world. Respond to blind violence and inhuman hatred with the extraordinary power of love. Forgive those who offend you. Do not let yourselves be dragged into manifestations of nationalism, racism and intolerance."

"We are a periphery that bears witness to God's love for the whole world."

"We can be united even though we live in different countries, with different governments and cultures. And this is possible because we have the same faith, we belong to the same Church: on the other hand, Catholicism is distinguished precisely by its universality. I think that it is a very beautiful testimony."

"In Kazakhstan, the people of God continue to grow in number and, above all, in quality, that it is the most important thing."

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"Servetus’s death was the turning point in the ideology and mentality dominating since the fourth century."

"Michel Servet[us], . . . geographer, physician, physiologist, contributed to the welfare of humanity by his scientific discoveries, his devotion to the sick and the poor, and the indomitable independence of his intelligence and his conscience … His convictions were invincible. He made a sacrifice of his life for the cause of the truth."

"To kill a man is not to protect a doctrine, but it is to kill a man."

"I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other’s error and nobody discerns his own."

"The Spaniard, Servetus, contends in his tract that there is but one person in God. The Roman church holds that there are three persons in one essence. I agree rather with the Spaniard."

"I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people."

"Michael Servetus, alone, but trusting in Christ’s most sure protection."

"From a historical perspective, Servetus died in order that freedom of conscience could become a civil right of the individual in modern society."

"By sanctifying cruelty, early Christianity set a precedent for more than a millennium of systematic torture in Christian Europe. If you understand the expressions to burn at the stake, to hold his feet to the fire, to break a butterfly on the wheel, to be racked with pain, to be drawn and quartered, to disembowel, to flay, to press, the thumbscrew, the garrote, a slow burn, and the iron maiden (a hollow hinged statue lined with nails, later taken as the name of a heavy-metal rock band), you are familiar with a fraction of the ways that heretics were brutalized during the Middle Ages and early modern period. During the Spanish Inquisition, church officials concluded that the conversions of thousands of former Jews didn’t take. To compel the conversos to confess their hidden apostasy, the inquisitors tied their arms behind their backs, hoisted them by their wrists, and dropped them in a series of violent jerks, rupturing their tendons and pulling their arms out of their sockets. Many others were burned alive, a fate that also befell Michael Servetus for questioning the trinity, Giordano Bruno for believing (among other things) that the earth went around the sun, and William Tyndale for translating the Bible into English. Galileo, perhaps the most famous victim of the Inquisition, got off easy: he was only shown the instruments of torture (in particular, the rack) and was given the opportunity to recant for “having held and believed that the sun is the center of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the center and moves.”"

"In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity… We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ."

"Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes … If one must condemn everyone that misses in a particular point then every mortal would have to be burnt a thousand times. The apostles and Luther himself have been mistaken … If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong."

"Poor people always lose in struggles."

"People who are stupid, unscrupulous, or hypocritical, think that others are just the same. And — this is the real pity — they treat them as if they were."

"Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a beast, like a mule, like a cock, like a pig, like a bull. Honours, distinctions, titles: things of air, puffs of pride, lies, nothingness."

"With God's grace, you have to tackle and carry out the impossible, because anybody can do what is possible."

"The understanding that so many people demand of others is that everyone should join their party."

"I am every day more convinced that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth."

"Even in our times, despite those who deny God, earth is very close to Heaven."

"The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance."

"First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action."

"You are too calculating. Don't tell me you are young. Youth gives all it can: it gives itself without reserve."

"True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful."

"All the things of this world are no more than earth. Place them in a heap under your feet and you will be so much the nearer to heaven."

"The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link."

"Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time."

"Work is man's original vocation. It is a blessing from God, and those who consider it a punishment are sadly mistaken."

"For everyone, whatever his state — single, married, widowed or priest — chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love."

"The higher a statue is raised, the harder and more dangerous the impact when it falls."

"Never say of anybody under you: he is no good. It is you who are no good, for you cannot find a place where he will be of use."

"You are ready to give your life for your honour ... Be ready to give up your honour for your soul."

"It is easier to bustle about than to study, but it is also less effective."

"I have now gone through the first seven books of Martial, and have learned about 360 of the best lines. His merit seems to me to lie, not in wit, but in the rapid succession of vivid images. I wish he were less nauseous. ... Besides his indecency, his servility and his mendicancy disgust me."

"Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus."

"He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse."

"And then what proper person can be partial To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?"

"Audio Valerium Martialem decessisse et moleste fero. Erat homo ingeniosus acutus acer, et qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus. ... At non erunt aeterna, quae scripsit; non erunt fortasse, ille tamen scripsit, tamquam essent futura."

"Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores."

"The greatest of epigrammatists, and the father of the epigram as we understand it."

"Neither fear your death's day nor long for it."