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"There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s."
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"Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed."
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"When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief."
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"It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers."
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"Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question."
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"No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm."
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"Sex drives the world and sex in on every human mind, be it a prophet or be it a saint, history has full of evidences."
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
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"I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty."
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"I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example."
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"I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy."
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"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."
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"Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort."
Behavior

"It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed."
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"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."
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"I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work."
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"Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it."
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"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?"
People

"If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic."
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