Hans Kung:
In the question of homosexuality, the Vatican was rather permissive or lenient, with regard to all these crimes of sexual abuse.

Amos Bronson Alcott said:

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

 
 

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