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"We're proud to say that even if a only a minority of Catholic youths may be practicing, there's a very strong nucleus of very, very committed Catholic young people."
"As a Catholic church, we are universal church. So we are not founded on national churches, even though there are various traditions in individual countries, but we are one church also in Europe. So that's our point of departure and regarding the basic topics like doctrine and ethics, we have one common vision, or we should have one common vision as a Catholic church. So that's why we use the contacts with the European institutions: to enhance those interest."
"It is clear that priests have an essential role in the Church, and in some cases, they have the final say, but that doesn't mean you can't include lay people in decision-making. Priestly ministry and priestly authority is meant for service."
"Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't."
"We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder."
"In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them."
"There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created."