[It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine.] You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, ... That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.
Christopher Durang
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We have taken note that Joseph Zen was appointed as a cardinal by the Vatican. We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.
Liu Jianchao
The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.
David Tracy
That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government.
Paul Spiegel
The Vatican should now open its archives.
Abraham Lehrer
It's easy to see the Vatican is wildly inconsistent.
David Clohessy
Outside of Italy, Catholics and churchmen have a very kind of mystical view of the Vatican and especially the conclave.
David Gibson
It's a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious orders, ... In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity and Obedience.
James Martin
All the speakers have some connection to the Vatican and have different insights on a common theme.
Kathleen Hohl
The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and the truth.
Joe Solmonese
When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.
Chester Gillis
We condemn ... the Passion plays which led to anti-Semitism, hatred, intolerance. We in no way want to turn back the clock to a pre-Vatican II church that supposedly condemn[s] the Jews.
Paul Lauer
We have repeated our position on relations with the Vatican many times. There is no change in our position.
Liu Jianchao
They said they have no intelligence, and I don't believe that, ... The Vatican refuses totally to cooperate with us.
Carla Del Ponte
Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City. Today I, along with so many Americans, continue to pray for Pope John Paul II.
Sheila Jackson Lee
It's a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious orders.
James Martin
The real debate around this witch hunt isn't between us and the Vatican, it's between the Vatican and the truth. When the church makes gay men a scapegoat for pedophiles, it ignores one problem and creates another.
Joe Solmonese
We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.
Ye Xiaowen
That shows the Vatican has no understanding of sexuality or homosexuality.
Francis Debernardo
My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope John Paul . The screening is at the Vatican on the 17th, and I've got to be on the plane on the 16th, so I'm hoping we can conclude the deal by the 15th, which is deadline, so I can please Hideki and please my wife ? and meet the pope.
Arn Tellem
Undoubtedly it's historic ... The feeling that the Vatican itself is leading the way to all of the believers all over the world in changing the attitude towards Judaism and Jewish people.
Isaac Herzog
But a visit of this sort requires a radical change in relations between the Russian Orthodox church and the Vatican.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky
By appointing their own bishops hastily and illegally, they [the Patriotic Catholic Association] tried to impose their own selection on the Vatican. This shows disregard for the spirit of the negotiation and disrupts mutual trust.
Cardinal Zen
It shows the pope is not obsessed with the past, but is keeping his options open and is willing to do unconventional things that even the innermost Vatican circles don't expect.
Hans Kueng
O'Brien is well-connected and probably knows what the thinking in Rome is, ... Officially, he's not speaking for the Vatican, but he's not speaking out of tune with the Vatican either.
James Hitchcock
Arafat is interested in developing a relationship with all the leaders of the world in order to maintain his legitimacy, his role in establishing a Palestinian state. And you cannot ignore the weight and value of the Vatican -- especially the pope.
Mahdi Abdel Hadi
I have information he is hiding in a Franciscan monastery, and so the Catholic Church is protecting him. I have taken this up with the Vatican and the Vatican refuses totally to co-operate with us.
Carla Del Ponte
The Catholic laity doesn't know what priests the Vatican is being asked to sanction. They don't know what the bishops are recommending. We don't know why some get no sanctions, some get minimal sanctions and some get removed from the priesthood. If sanctions are imposed, it is often months before it's announced. And there seems to be absolutely no monitoring of these prayer and penance guys.
David Clohessy
If Hindus can show respect for Prophet Mohammad and the Vatican, Muslims and Christians should be as respectful to Ram.
Uma Bharati
Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds.
Paul Steidler
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow
What the Vatican is to the Catholics, Ten Chimneys is to actors.
Carol Channing
This is the most important art exhibit that has ever come to Milwaukee. It features world-class art and artifacts from the Vatican.
Dan Finley
I believe the Catholic Church teachings about homosexuality and the priesthood need to be made clear. I believe that after Vatican II homosexuals exploited loopholes (in church policy), and the fruits of that lax attitude are reflected in the abuses that have come to light.
John O'connor
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler
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