William P. Leahy

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

— William P. Leahy

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

— William P. Leahy

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.

— William P. Leahy

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

— William P. Leahy

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

— William P. Leahy

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

— William P. Leahy

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

— William P. Leahy

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

— William P. Leahy

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

— William P. Leahy

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

— William P. Leahy

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

— William P. Leahy

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but…

— William P. Leahy

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics,…

— William P. Leahy

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

— William P. Leahy

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

— William P. Leahy

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

— William P. Leahy

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint…

— William P. Leahy

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across…

— William P. Leahy

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on…

— William P. Leahy

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

— William P. Leahy

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

— William P. Leahy

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

— William P. Leahy

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also…

— William P. Leahy

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

— William P. Leahy

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

— William P. Leahy

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

— William P. Leahy

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church…

— William P. Leahy