For all the sins and failings of her members, the Church is the one fold of Christ and the temple of the Spirit, and so she values above all not herself, but the «precious treasure» from above of which John
XXIII spoke.
For example, when Pope John
XXIII spoke of medical care as a «right,» he used that term in a far different sense from the use of «right» in, say, the Declaration of Independence and in the Bill of Rights.
Not exact matches
Pope John
XXIII was quoted as saying, «I am only infallible if I
speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible.»
Those who experienced the pontificate of Pope John
XXIII will understand me when I say: it was easier in those years to
speak of the Petrine ministry as God's gift to the church.
Dr. Russell Hittinger, the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa,
spoke on «The Legacy of Blessed John
XXIII's 1963 encyclical, Pacem in terris.»