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

Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

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

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.

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.

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

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