Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

[t]hose...who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.

a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distance from contemporary culture.