Issue Date: October 21, 2005
Quotable & Notable
Faith in the risen Christ makes the Eucharist a project of
solidarity, to share wealth with the poorest.
-- Intervention by
Archbishop Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, at the bishops synod
on the Eucharist in Rome
It was by and for Christ that this
earth was made, which means it is sinfully wrong -- it is a tragedy of enormous
proportions -- to destroy, degrade or despoil it.
-- Richard
Cizik, vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of
Evangelicals, urging evangelicals to embrace a scripture-based
environmentalism
Bush asked faithful Catholics to fight for
him, campaign for him and vote for him and they did in record numbers; now the
president lacks the stomach to fight for the values of those who put him in
office.
-- Fr. Thomas Euteneuer of Human Life International, who
said the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was a slap in
the face to pro-life movement
Fifty years from now, the
Voice of the Faithful will be remembered as the tiny pebble that rolled down
the hill and became the biggest thing to hit the church.
-- Sally
Vance-Trembath, keynote speaker at a Northern California Voice of the Faithful
meeting called to discern names for the selection of the next archbishop of San
Francisco
National Catholic Reporter, October 21,
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