Edward Bernard Scharfenberger

Edward Bernard Scharfenberger (May 29, 1948–) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Albany. Quotes Freedom, the most distinctively human and humanizing of all gifts, becomes in human history a temptation to power and self-centeredness - just the opposite of what we need and are made for. The very gift that makes us most human and after which we most deeply yearn is the very cause of so much human pain and deterioration, for unless we use this freedom for our own good and the good of one another, we end up making one another slaves. The virtue of freedom (16 October 2014) The ethics of the Church and the fundamental human ethics are the same thing, they are linked. Therefore, my appeal is that we treat these farmworkers as we treat other workers in the State of New York, with the same dignity, simply because they are human beings. They are entitled to the same kind of protections that other workers in the State of New York have. Social Justice for 120,000 farm workers in the state of New York (8 February 2017) Fides News Agency External links Category:1948 births Category:People from New York City Category:Clergy from the United States Category:Catholics from the United States Category:Roman Catholic bishops Category:Living people