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Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.


Antonio Vieira


#ears #eyes #heart #know #only

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono.


Christopher Hitchens


#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.


William Robertson Smith


#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.


Vladimir Zhirinovsky


#i #only #oppose #orthodox #priests

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.


Gustave Flaubert


#call #decided #even #hate #high

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period." (VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.)


Charles L. Bailey Jr.


#catholic #church #confronted #disbelief #evil

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.


Hans Küng


#celibacy #christianity #church #priesthood #priests

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.


James Clavell


#priests #religion #religion

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise


Jean Lorrain


#religion #religion

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.


Daniel Berrigan


#antiwar #because #community #convicted #forbidden