Editors Quote by Michael D. Higgins

... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering.…

— Thomas Jefferson

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

— George Eliot

“churches have unconsciously encouraged the development of fear by using it as a weapon to whip people into church attendance, the performance of church…

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Hilaire Belloc

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

— Martin Scorsese

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

— Nadine Gordimer

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the…

— Pope Francis

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests.…

— Donald Wuerl

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

— Ann Patchett

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

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked…

— Kate Bush