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We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

William P. Leahy

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William P. Leahy
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 1
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Teacher
Omaha
Nebraska
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Always
Universities
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Catholic

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What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
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I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
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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.
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The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
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Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
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Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
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I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.
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The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
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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.
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The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.
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The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.
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We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
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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.
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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.
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