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.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

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.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.