MEMORABLE QUOTES
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"Pastoral care must not be understood as if it were somehow in conflict with the law. Rather, one should begin by assuming that the fundamental point of encounter between the law and pastoral care is love for the truth."

- Benedict XVI, Sacramentum caritatis, February 22, 2007, No. 29

"Just as the body cannot be separated from the soul that informs it, so also pastoral practice cannot be completely separated from the moral doctrine that justifies it. Therefore, a change in pastoral policy can easily result, at least implicitly, in a change of the implied doctrine.

"Moreover, there are no neutral practices; ... Pastoral care is an art based on dogmatic morality, spirituality and law, in order to act prudently according to the concrete case. There can be no pastoral ministry in disharmony with the truths of the Church and her morals, at variance with her laws or not oriented at achieving the ideal of Christian life. A pastoral policy at variance with the truth believed and lived by the Church ...  would easily turn into arbitrariness harmful to Christian life itself."

- Preferential Option for the Family: 100 Questions and Answers relating to the Synod,
The Most Rev. Alfo di Cillo Pagotto, SSS,
The Most Rev. Robert Vasa and
The Most rev. Athanasius Schneider

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