“ Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage,… Joseph Ratzinger
“ We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality… Joseph Ratzinger
“ The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a… Joseph Ratzinger
“ Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. Joseph Ratzinger
“ A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to b… Joseph Ratzinger
“ The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. Joseph Ratzinger
