The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

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.

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.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.

Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.

I was a foodie and I continue to be a foodie.

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.