In all its 200-year history, the American hierarchy has never been in worse shape. This same policy has been implemented all over the Catholic world in the name of restoring to the church the loyalty of the clergy and people.
--Andrew M. Greeley
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With unrelenting consistency in recent years, the Vatican has appointed to the American hierarchy men who are mean-spirited careerists -- inept, incompetent, insensitive bureaucrats who are utterly indifferent to their clergy and laity.
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When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. --Archbishop Helder Camara |
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While there is a connection between the saved of all ages, Christianity is new wine poured into new wine-skins. What mischief has been done by the Roman Catholic church through its attempt to continue the Levitical system of the Old Testament! Tertullian was the first to call ministers priests; and Cyprian the first to introduce the idea that the mass was a sacrifice. Thus great sanctuaries and an elaborate ritual were introduced into the church, to replace the simple meeting places of earlier times, and the unadorned preaching of the gospel in primitive Christianity. --Henry C. Thiessen, Lectures in Sytematic Theology |
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. --Rev. Martin Luther |
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If you keep going down this path [the child sex-abuse scandal in the Church], you are going to go to places darker than you can imagine. --Father Tom Doyle |
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That you, Galileo, have upon account of those things which you have written and confessed, subjected yourself to a strong suspicion of heresy in this Holy Office, by believing, and holding to be true, a doctrine which is false, and contrary to the sacred and divine Scripture- viz., that the sun is the center of the orb of the earth, and does not move from the east to the west; and that the earth moves, and is not the center of the world. --The Roman Catholic Church on The Heresy of Galileo. |
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The exercise of authority without accountability is not servant leadership; it is tyranny. --National Review Board Survey on Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse which examined the clergy sexual abuse crisis |
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Satan's primary tactic in opposing God is not to foster atheism, but religion. A perverted Christianity is Satan's ultimate weapon. -- Dave Hunt |
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It is a universal tendency in the Christian religion, as in many other religions, to give a theological interpretation to institutions which have developed gradually through a period of time for the sake of practical usefulness, and then read that interpretation back into the earliest periods and infancy of these institutions, attaching them to an age when in fact nobody imagined that they had such a meaning. -Richard Hanson |
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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much. -- Augustine |
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. --Eric Hoffer |
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Christianity began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When it went to Athens, it became a philosophy. When it went to Rome, it became an organization. When it went to Europe, it became a culture. When it came to America, it became a business.
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So-called Christian psychology is secular psychology clothed in pious platitudes and religious rhetoric. --J. Vernon McGee |
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The pastorate is one of the few occupations where you get paid to read good books, attend carry-in dinners, and sleep in on Mondays. --James Watkins |
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The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
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Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. --Rev. Martin Luther |
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. --Blaise Pascal |
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The mission of amusement produces no converts. The need of the hour for today's ministry is believing scholarship joined with earnest spirituality, the one springing from the other as fruit from the root. The need is BIBLICAL DOCTRINE, so understood and felt, that it sets men on fire. --CH Spurgeon |
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. --Mohandas Gandhi |
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The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. -- Diane Ravitch |
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You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go. --James P. McFadden |
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