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.

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

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

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.

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