Attendance Quote by Sara Paretsky

There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin…

— Rodney Stark

The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Over the years I've had strong friendships with many priests. As a matter of fact, a group of Christian leaders from the National Council…

— Dave Brubeck

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for…

— Bill Vaughan

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and…

— Sara Paretsky

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous…

— Bruce Springsteen

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

— David Wilkerson

I grew up an Irish Catholic - which I now have mixed feelings about - so went to mass. As we got older, Mum…

— Angela Scanlon

Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them… At times we lose people…

— Pope Francis

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

— William P. Leahy

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

— Michael D. Higgins