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Thomas Keneally

"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."

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Donna Grant

"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

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Donna Grant

"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"

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Donna Grant

"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."

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Donna Grant

"For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church."

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Donna Grant

"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."

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Donna Grant

"I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789."

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Donna Grant

"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself."

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Donna Grant

"If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you."

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Donna Grant

"The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk."

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Donna Grant

"There is no one true church."

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Thomas Keneally
"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."

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Thomas Keneally
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."

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Thomas Keneally
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."

Church

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Thomas Keneally
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."

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Thomas Keneally
"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."

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Thomas Keneally
"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."

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Thomas Keneally
"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."

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Thomas Keneally
"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."

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Thomas Keneally
"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."

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Thomas Keneally
"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."

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