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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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"I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to."

"There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation."

"But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."

"We don't want to keep secrets anymore."

"When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages."

"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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"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."


"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."


"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."


"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?"


"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."


"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."


"The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better."
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