“We must visit churches frequently and venerate and revere the clergy - not so much for themselves, if they are sinners, but because of their office and administration of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.”
St. Francis of Assisi (Letter to the Faithful II
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense”
Voltaire
“The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.”
Irish Proverb
“I found that the clergy did not understand their own book”
“Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad”
Mark Twain
“In memory of children abused by clergy.”
William Levada
