Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
George PellCouples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.
George PellThe church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
George PellThere's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.
George Pell