I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

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.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

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.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

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.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?

Love is so wonderful and free to give, and it’s the one thing they can’t make you pay taxes on.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.