"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."

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"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."

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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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"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."

Tony Campolo, American Clergyman

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."

"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."

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

"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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"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."

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