Following the Voice within: Words of wisdom

Thursday, April 26

Words of wisdom

Stolen from Thom and I'm not even sorry.

2 comments:

colkochApril 26, 2012 at 10:09 PM
Oh my god Tim, that is well worth stealing. I wouldn't be sorry, I'd be blown away.
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parepidemosApril 28, 2012 at 8:11 AM
Somehow, I don't think that Thom is the kinda of person who would expect you to be sorry for stealing something as good as this.
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"Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one’s own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. This emphasis on the individual, whose conscience confronts him with a supreme and ultimate tribunal, and one which in the last resort is beyond the claim of external social groups, even the official church, also establishes a principle in opposition to increasing totalitarianism."
Joseph Ratzinger, Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, 1967