"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."

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"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."

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Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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Richard John Neuhaus, American Writer

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"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

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"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."

John Frame, American Philosopher

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Alberta Hunter, American Musician

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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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"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

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"The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light."

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"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."

Al Green, American Musician

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"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."

"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."

"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."

"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."

"Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day."

"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."

"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

"The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light."

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"As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to."

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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."

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