Not exact matches
The notion of a Church always in
need of purification and
reform is drawn not from the Reformation slogan ecclesia semper reformanda, but from within the Church's deepest inner dynamics: its longing to be joined to its spousal head, Christ the
Lord, and its passion to share his love with those to whom it has been commissioned to bring the gospel — that is, everyone.
«Sometimes the
Lord works in strange ways, but he opened our eyes to the urgent
need for real
reform.»
Lord Jenkins believes that the Prime Minister, who is still officially «unpersuaded» of the
need for electoral
reform, is warming to his imaginative proposals for
reforming Britain's electoral system.
Lord Forsyth, a former Conservative minister who headed the party's recent Tax
Reform Commission, said: «I think we
need to cut taxes, cut interest rates and cut public expenditure.
The Lords
need radical democratic
reform, but instead
Lord Strathclyde has been put in charge of silencing it.