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• There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

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• Even among the married, s*xual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man’s character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

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• The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

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• There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

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• Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

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• Vatican II declares the Church… as necessary for salvation.

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• With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

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• Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

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Francis Arinze (8)

Birth:	1st November, 1932
Nationality:	Nigerian
Profession:	Clergyman

About

Francis Arinze was born in Onitsha, Nigeria. He is an Igbo Nigerian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, having served as prefect from 2002 to 2008. He is the current Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni since 2005. He was one of the principal advisors to Pope John Paul II, and was considered papabile before the 2005 papal conclave, which elected Benedict XVI.

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