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"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
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"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."
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"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."
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"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
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"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
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"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."
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"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."
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"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
Forgiveness
"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
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"I think we can work through a lot of these issues."
Work
"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."
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"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?"
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"I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families."
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"Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is."
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"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."
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