Godfried Danneels

“The Church must be a house with open doors and windows, not a fortress.”

“The priest is not a functionary of the sacred, but a witness to the Gospel.”

“The Church has to be a place where, in the first place, you can speak about everything, whatever it is.”

“We called ourselves the St. Gallen group. It was a kind of chic name.”

“The Second Vatican Council has already been largely forgotten.”

“You can't have the last word in a synod. You can't say, 'Everything is closed now.' We are a council, a walking people.”

“The great problem is no longer sin, it is suffering. People do not ask, 'Am I right with God?' but 'Am I happy?'”

“I think that one should not say that it is a sin to be homosexual. It's a question of an attitude.”

“The question of whether gay people can be in a civil union, the state has to decide.”

“The crisis of vocations is a crisis of faith.”