In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

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

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.

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

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

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.

God draws straight with crooked lines.