Greater familiarity of European men and women with the Sacred Scriptures leads towards that experience of burning fire in the heart which was experie… - Carlo Maria Martini

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Greater familiarity of European men and women with the Sacred Scriptures leads towards that experience of burning fire in the heart which was experienced by the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. The Bible read and prayed, in particular by young people, is the book of the future for the European continent.

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About Carlo Maria Martini

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

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[...] il Golgota rappresenta il peccato del mondo. A volte la Chiesa si occupa di troppi peccati e non tutti nella Chiesa sanno e sentono che quello è il solo, vero peccato: la sopraffazione, l'umiliazione, il disconoscimento del proprio simile tanto più se è debole se è povero se è escluso. E se è un giusto. Uno che non farebbe mai cose che umiliano la dignità della persona. Il Golgota dovrebbe essere l'inizio di un percorso penitenziale che dura tutta la vita.

I am also prepared to admit the value of an enduring friendship and faithfulness between two persons of the same sex. Friendship has always been held in great honour in the ancient world, perhaps more so than today, even though it was mostly understood in the context of that transcending of the purely physical sphere I mentioned above, to be a union of minds and hearts.

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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