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If anything, the scandals have made me want to become a priest even more. It would bring me great joy to be a priest and help heal the wounds that the priesthood is suffering.

Dan Dematte
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The bishops of the church have never taken responsibility for their role in the sex abuse crisis. Almost from the very beginning, they have tried to blame the crisis on homosexuality in the priesthood.

Francis Debernardo
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I saw his love for the priesthood, just by being himself, ... He is like a poet, capturing the essence of life without words.

John Noonan
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(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the priesthood.

Andrew Greeley
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I think what she has done is find something which is at a level that she can deal with without surrendering her integrity on the one hand and without surrendering her priesthood on the other.

Michael Hill
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Having worked with bishops and priests, diocesan and religious, all over the world, I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met.

Father Timothy Radcliffe
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould
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ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. Judibras.

Ambrose Bierce
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I began asking what I was going to do with the rest of my life, ... This idea of the priesthood kept popping up.

Joe Pemberton
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I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met.

Father Timothy Radcliffe
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It's going to put a human face on the priesthood. It's going to show four guys who are pretty normal guys with relationships, family. Guys who aren't losers. It's going to show a real struggle that people have.

Joe Adair
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Eternal realities are based upon real eternal relationships and priesthood ordinances.

Jordan Cox
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These men are going to be shielded for decades to come in the church. They shouldn't even be allowed to remain in the priesthood.

Barbara Blaine
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Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.

Angelo Scola
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Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl S. Buck
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I believe the Catholic Church teachings about homosexuality and the priesthood need to be made clear. I believe that after Vatican II homosexuals exploited loopholes (in church policy), and the fruits of that lax attitude are reflected in the abuses that have come to light.

John O'connor
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