Main Quotes
- The heart of the book is the message of Easter. If the news of Jesus’ resurrection were removed, not one page of the book would have any value.
- Until very recently, the Bible was regarded too much as a scientific manual and not enough as a story written to throw God’s light on the existing world.
- Openness to the (ecumenical) movement comes through prayer, through constant reform and renewal, through studying the sources of faith and each others traditions, through readiness to abandon our well loved forms, through honest and patient dialogue, …and this openness brings with it the tranquility and joy, which is of the good Spirit.
- As everyone can ascertain nowadays, there are several methods of regulating births. The Second Vatican Council did not speak of any of these concrete methods… This is a different standpoint than that taken under Pius XI some thirty years which was also maintained by his successor... we can sense here a clear development in the Church, a development, which is also going on outside the Church.
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