Jesus' parable retains all its enigmatic charge, it leaves the listener with the task of understanding it, it challenges him and forces him to questi… - Carlo Maria Martini

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Jesus' parable retains all its enigmatic charge, it leaves the listener with the task of understanding it, it challenges him and forces him to question himself, it involves him in the first person and engages him in the search for meaning. [...] the parables are an act of courtesy, of respect for human freedom, of condescension, almost of tenderness.

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Carlo Maria Martini (15 February 1927 – 31 August 2012) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

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(About Saint Ignatius of Loyola) He said it himself, he sinned long and hard, to quote Luther; his conversion was total, his expiation very long, accompanied by a love of life and works, including the foundation of a Company that after 400 years is still one of the pillars of our Church.

Often the language used to talk about God is stunted and feeble, sometimes awkward, sometimes generic; one easily divides into verticalists and horizontalists, traditionalists and progressives, one makes judgements that, in the light of the Gospel, are at least inadequate.

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Lo ha raccontato lui stesso, peccò a lungo e fortemente, per dirla con Lutero; la sua conversione fu totale, la sua espiazione lunghissima, accompagnata da un amore per la vita e per le opere tra le quali appunto la fondazione d'una Compagnia che dopo quattrocent'anni è ancora uno dei pilastri della nostra Chiesa.

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