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

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

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

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.