Being good can never do without the effort to learn, step by step, and in real circumstances of life, how to separate religious and moral words from an expelling mechanism, one which demands human sacrifice, so as to make of them words of mercy which absolve, which loose, which allow creation to be brought to completion. (20).

Faith Beyond Resentment: fragments catholic and gay (2001) - "The man blind from birth and the Creator's subversion of sin"