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.

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.

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

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.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

I don't feel old or young, I just am

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.