Penny Lernoux quotes
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“You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.”
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“Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.”
-- Penny LernouxSource : Penny Lernoux (1980). “Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America--the Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy”
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“And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.”
-- Penny LernouxSource : Penny Lernoux (1984). “In Banks We Trust”, Anchor Books
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“In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.”
-- Penny LernouxSource : "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.
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“At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.”
-- Penny LernouxSource : Penny Lernoux (1990). “People of God: the struggle for world Catholicism”, Penguin Group USA
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“Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.”
-- Penny LernouxSource : "People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism". Book by Penny Lernoux, 1989.
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