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"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."
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"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."
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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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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
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"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved."
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"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."
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"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
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"It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world."
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"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."
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"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."
Time
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
Diplomacy
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
Being
"The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute."
Power
"Old age is a shipwreck."
Age
"I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge."
Authority
"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance."
Work
"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war."
War
"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."
Life
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