I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.