An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your...

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One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very...

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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try...

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There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues...

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The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is...

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Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has...

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who...

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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be...

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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left...

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a...

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Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their...

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Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey...

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The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they...

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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And...

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Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married...

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As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to...

(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up...

(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up...

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing...

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing...

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft:...

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft:...

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world...

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world...