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“I'd say that Catholicism in the United States has the distinct advantage of being in a pluralistic society, where your religion contributes something to your identity. So you tend to define yourself as a Catholic. I'm Irish, Catholic, a Democrat from the West Side of Chicago, and that's pretty much my identity.”
Andrew Greeley
“One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.”
“As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.”
“I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.”
“Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.”
“One Hispanic woman... was telling me about her religion, and all she was talking about were the parties, the festivals.”
“God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God is lurking everywhere. Right down the street, right around the corner, there's God.”
“Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.”
“It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.”
“The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.”
