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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings

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

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The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. – Joseph Ratzinger

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Women
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Joseph Ratzinger
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. – Joseph Ratzinger

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Freedom
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm

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Society

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. – Charles R. Swindoll

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Society

There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children. – Nelson Mandela

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Society

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I always say, Im certain I changed Watchmen less than the Coen brothers changed No Country for Old Men. Im certain of it. But you dont hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. Its like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book. – Zack Snyder

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