Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters...

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

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

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

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

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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the...

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

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It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools....

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

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

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