(10 quotes found)
“We're here to revive a very ancient tradition where the laity are intimately involved in the designation of the archbishop,”
Jim Jenkins
“We're excited for the playoffs, but we need to beat St. Hubert's [Feb. 7] and Archbishop Ryan [Feb. 9], which will be tough matches.”
Norman O'Rourke
“Many victims consider it a slap in the face that Archbishop O'Malley has been rewarded for a job not very well done.”
Mitchell Garabedian
“ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. --Jodo Rem”
Ambrose Bierce
“ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.”
“I had always felt close to the workers’ movement but I chose to stay loyal to the Church. It wasn’t an easy choice and one that caused me a lot of pain”
Fr. Anġ Seychell
“I tried to minimise the number of cases where I could not give absolution to parishioners who came for confession. The cases were very few”
Fr Anġ Seychell
“The Church in Malta, had a crusader mentality at the time and came out guns blazing against the Labour Party. However, he is also confident that black period will never return. Vatican Council II, which came after the interdiction, gave us the tools to find a way out of the impasse. The Church learned from those mistakes”
“It was a period that caused a lot of harm, as people were unfairly put in a situation of having to choose between the party they supported and the Church they were baptised in. Labourites who chose to continue supporting the party felt as if the Church had rejected them and this led to a grudge that was carried for a long time”
“Twenty-seven years ago I travelled with the then Archbishop of Krakow Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to Rome (where he was elected Pope). I am convinced he will continue to lead me by the hand from on high.”
Stanislaw Dziwisz
