(53 quotes found)
“We have always been appointing and consecrating our own bishops. This is what we must stick to.”
Ye Xiaowen
“By and large the people in our parishes, ... the priests tell me they think that the steps the Bishops of this country have taken have done a great job and are meeting the crisis. We're doing a great educational outreach program trying to prevent abuse by clergy or anyone else.”
William Levada
“The bishop has to show in each and every case that he is in a very serious posture of pastoral care and concern for that politician -- and that has to be seen by the Catholic people. When something is a public scandal, it has to be remedied publicly, but there are many different ways in which bishops might exercise that pastoral care and concern,”
Richard John Neuhaus
“Thousands of victims haven't reported and dozens of bishops aren't telling all they know. They have no incentive to.”
David Clohessy
“It was appropriate to do something to make a dent in the compensation that the bishop hadn't received,”
David Epstein
“I feel the bishop in my heart. I believe he's a man of God. I don't think he'd lead us the wrong way.”
Curtis Thompson
“There's no state in the union where the bishop has been as hard- nosed and vicious as in Colorado. None. I wouldn't even be able to name the second-worst.”
“Generally speaking, bishops are generally speaking.”
Dennis Nineham
“I made a lot of lumber out of the Bishop pines and Douglas fir,”
Tom Anderson
“I think there are a number of bishops -- and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category -- who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.”
Frank Keating
