(59 quotes found)
“The Church just has not been able to cope with the demands for fairness and equality from women, so they're very angry.”
Andrew Greeley
“The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that.”
“What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important? God's forgiving love or premarital sex?”
“Why does God permit us whom he loves to die? And you know what I say, where was God at the World Trade Center? He was there weeping for his fractured children. That's not a direct answer to the question but it's the best I could do. God suffers with us.”
“There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.”
“The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the love of God.”
“The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.”
“Well, the Irish aren't much into showing affection. There was crisis when we were wiped out in the Depression and my father went into the gloom. But surely in the years when I was an adolescent during the war years, there was, I would say, a rebirth of affection there.”
“The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.”
