Claudio Hummes

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

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

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

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.