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I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.


Frank Keating


#cardinal #category #enough #heart #his

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?


Malcolm Turnbull


#deciding #divorced #gay #gay marriage #get

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.


Rowan Williams


#bishop #bishops #disappoint #even #how

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.


Richard Cardinal Cushing


#church #fun #govern #priests #will

We were like bishops of opposite color.


Boris Spassky


#color #like #opposite #were

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.


Frank Butler


#call #close #decisions #like #them

If the bishops had not called vain imaginings religion, philosophers would not regard religion as vain imaginings.


Mirzá Azizu llah-i-Misbáh


#imaginings #philosphers #religion #imagination

There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.


John Boswell


#christianity #church #gay-rights #roman-empire #homosexuality

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.


Brendan Behan


#bishops #bless #may #sister #sons

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.


Hans Kung


#church #communion #community #god #hierarchy






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