In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.Rowan D. Williams
In human life generally, information, significant and otherwise, is shared in such overlapping networks, and absorbed at different levels over time.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
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The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
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