The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

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.

If you know how it is to be without food then you will appreciate your daily provisions.

I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.

Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

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