There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

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

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

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

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

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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than...

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

(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...

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

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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the...

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

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Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find...

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

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

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You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You...

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

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

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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

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I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is...

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

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

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after...

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after...

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind...

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind...