#priests

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them? ↗

— William P. Leahy

#also #church #deal #help #hierarchy

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period." (VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.) ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#catholic #church #confronted #disbelief #evil

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores. ↗

— James Clavell

#priests #religion #religion

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#religion #religion

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#call #decided #even #hate #high

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friends #go #i #others #people

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict. ↗

— Ian Hart

#conflict #get #most #priests #teachers

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#great #i #listen #now #priests

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#george #herbert #inspiration #model #priest

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#comics #like #live #more #only