Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
“On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.”
“There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.”