Country Quote by Andrew Greeley

The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires…

— Robert Sheaffer

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

— William P. Leahy

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest -…

— Keith O'Brien

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.

— Bo Sanchez

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted…

— Samuel Butler

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who…

— Anna Quindlen

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

— Hilaire Belloc

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…

— Arthur Middleton

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine…

— Giles Gilbert Scott

(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the…

— Andrew Greeley

“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons…

— Darrel Ray

After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels…

— Richard Rohr