The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

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.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.