18 Quotes by Claudio Hummes

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

Unfortunately, the cost of medical treatment is high and often beyond the reach not only of the poor, but even of those in the middle income bracket.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.