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the Church itself, no one would maintain that every act that the Church has performed on behalf of these legitimate goals is necessarily the right course. It's better than no course. And I think that critics have got to not just suggest what's wrong, but suggest a better

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way of fulfilling these goals. We do have a pretty genuine and substantial agreement on the goal of peace and justice, human dignity. The things I mentioned in the sermon, the disagreement comes on how to achieve them, and I think that every person who has a clue

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as to how to build these into the life of mankind, has got to participate in forming the Church's way of dealing with these things. And you certainly don't think the Church is so rigid in its structure, that it's unable to make the changes necessary to meet

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these kinds of commitments. I think the Church is more open now too, every serious contender within it, then it's been in a long, long time. I think that whether a person describes himself as being conservative or describes himself as being liberal, if he has an idea,

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and if it's a workable idea, the Church is open to hear it, at least the churches, I know it is