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This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
William P. Leahy
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What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
William P. Leahy
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I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
William P. Leahy
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One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
William P. Leahy
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No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.
William P. Leahy
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We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
William P. Leahy
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Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.
William P. Leahy
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BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.
William P. Leahy
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The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
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What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
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By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
William P. Leahy
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Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.
William P. Leahy
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