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William P. Leahy Quotes
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Type: Educator Quotes Category: American Educator Quotes Year of Birth: 1948 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: William P. Leahy Related Authors: Leon Kass Michael Pollan Leland Stanford Seth Lloyd Temple Grandin Paul Farmer John W. Gardner Stephen Cohen |
As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.
William P. Leahy 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 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 Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting. William P. Leahy I am very confident that the Spirit is with us. William P. Leahy I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families. William P. Leahy I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. William P. Leahy I think we can work through a lot of these issues. William P. Leahy I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation. William P. Leahy I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. William P. Leahy If you look at the polls, the Catholic community is very unhappy and angry, and their anger is directed at the hierarchy, not at their faith. William P. Leahy Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy. William P. Leahy 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 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. William P. Leahy 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 Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have. William P. Leahy Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is. William P. Leahy The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy. William P. Leahy The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing. William P. Leahy The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better. William P. Leahy The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today. William P. Leahy This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community. William P. Leahy We are a Catholic university, and as a Catholic university there's a special role that we have in the church and in the larger community. William P. Leahy We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture. William P. Leahy We think there is a role for a Catholic university to help the church address the issues that come out of this sexual misconduct. William P. Leahy We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities. William P. Leahy 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 What we have to do is learn how to be more effective in communicating what the church is teaching over the tradition and the centuries. William P. Leahy What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College. William P. Leahy You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well. William P. Leahy |
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