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Bishops Quote by Henry Adams

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“Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.”

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The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,…

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My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my…

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The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion…

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And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

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I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

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Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

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Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

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The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

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Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

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