This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community. William P. Leahy More Quotes by William P. Leahy More Quotes From William P. Leahy The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better. William P. Leahy perspective together feelings The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy. William P. Leahy celibacy church may I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. William P. Leahy hierarchy forgiveness errors I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. William P. Leahy issues people thinking 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 divorce issues rights 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 errors light organization We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture. William P. Leahy entity trying culture The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today. William P. Leahy deserted church-today spirit I am very confident that the Spirit is with us. William P. Leahy spirit 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 issues talking people What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College. William P. Leahy boston college roots We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities. William P. Leahy discussion issues catholic Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is. William P. Leahy church teaching may 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 catholic community church Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting. William P. Leahy individual church thinking The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences. William P. Leahy individual-differences unity challenges 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 think women church men As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role. William P. Leahy role about university focused I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation. William P. Leahy those say who situation I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families. William P. Leahy victims respond say best
