QUOTATION: May They All Be One!

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This is precisely what struck me in returning to the prayer of Christ: He does not say “May they all be united” but “May they all be one.” (John 17:21).

--Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Actualité et avenir du Concile œcuménique de Vatican II, 2012

QUOTATION: Division

Whenever I see a wall between Christians, I try to pull out a brick.

--Pope St. John XXIII

QUOTATION: Full Communion

Full communion of course will have to come about through the acceptance of the whole truth into which the Holy Spirit guides Christ's disciples. Hence all forms of reductionism or facile "agreement" must be absolutely avoided. Serious questions must be resolved, for if not, they will reappear at another time, either in the same terms or in a different guise.

--John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, 1995