Roman Catholic Quotes
Karl Adam, The Spirit of Catholicism (1928), "A religious historian of the fifth millennium A.D. will, without difficulty, discover in Catholicism conceptions and practices which will derive from India, China and Japan."
Also, "We Catholics acknowledge readily without shame, nay, with pride, that Catholicism cannot be identified simply and wholly with primitive Christianity."
Vatican II Council, "Those also can attain to everlasting salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or his church, yet sincerely seek God and, moved by grace, strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to tnem through the dictates of conscience."
Priest Orville Janssen, Appleton, WI, (commenting on Jimmy Bakker), "The Roman Catholic Church does not excommunicate anyone for immorality, but just for making dumb intellectual statements."
Dr. Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, "Theology, like faith, accepts as its source of knowledge Holy Writ and Tradition (remote rules of faith) and also the doctrinal assertions of the Church (proximate rule of faith) - this latter means the day by day teaching ministry of the Church through the magisterium ... the teaching authority of the Church in the pope and the bishops united with the pope. It is designed to take things from scripture and tradition and apply them in a living way, hence its being called the proximate rule of faith."
Richard McBrien, Notre Dame theologian, "The conversion of Constantine also allowed the Church to be less defensive about pagan culture, to learn from it and be enriched by it."
