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William P. Leahy

"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."

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"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."

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"In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series."

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"I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead."

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"When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen."

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"We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them."

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"I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston."

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"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."

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"Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston."

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"I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857."

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"I am very confident that the Spirit is with us."
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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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"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
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"The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today."
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"Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting."
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"We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture."
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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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"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 would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
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"I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way."
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