"The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He ..."
- Hans Küng
"Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command."
"If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests..."
"historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is app..."
"The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face."
"It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his."
"Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning."
"To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others."