#church

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

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I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ↗

— Lynn Lavner

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Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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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. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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

— William P. Leahy

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The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church. ↗

— Jacob Lew

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