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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
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You can't trust those damn Catholics.
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The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at?
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The priest is immense because he makes others believe in a heap of weird things. The Church wanting to do everything and be everything: it is a law of human spirit. Peoples adore authority. Priests are the servants and followers of imagination. The throne and the altar: revolutionary maxim.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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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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My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.
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(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise
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As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.
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Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
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In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.
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The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.
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Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
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A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.
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The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
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I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.
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Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus.
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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
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The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.
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The church must become a breeding ground for deliverers
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The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
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They have had great disputes among themselves, whether one chosen by them to be a priest would not be thereby qualified to do all the things that belong to that character, even though he had no authority derived from the Pope,
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Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
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Beware of bad Catholics.
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In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
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priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptizing with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life. Indeed,
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.
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The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.
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Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes of society. This great power for good has been entrusted to us, and we must not weaken it by failing in our responsibilities.
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They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
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Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one ... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
["Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885.]
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Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.
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A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.
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The homosexuals are the new Jesuits.
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Pastors are over-extended taking care of a few hundred sheep in their church
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So most priests are weak men, but like all men, given some small authority, they become tyrants. And because so many priests are fools they will not think, but simply repeat the things they learned. Things change, but priests do not change. And now things are changing fast.
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You [priests] are called 'another Christ.'
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I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.
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where there are priests, there is fear of Dust.
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things ... they are rooted to the role of the man.
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The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
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The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
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A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.
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The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.
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Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
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I have eaten several priests. They sit on the stomach like duck eggs.
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Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
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Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
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You should beware of priests, my son. And people who don't drink vodka. Worst of all are priests who don't drink vodka.
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Missionary service is a priesthood duty.
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I don't have much use for bishops. There's a reason they're called primates.
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The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,
cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.
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It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
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Cool. I could live vicariously through a Catholic priest. A thought that rarely occurred to me, for obvious reasons. I
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Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
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Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.
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Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
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Jesus, what kind of fucking church is this?
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join.
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To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
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Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
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They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.
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They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.
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Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.
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You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.
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In every religion the priest insists on five things -
First: There is a God.
Second: He has made known his will.
Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.
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What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
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There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.
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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Priests are always easy to blame. They make convenient scapegoats - after all, anyone with a strong faith different from your own must either be a crazy zealot or a lying manipulator.
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Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.
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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.
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Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
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Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption
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These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies."
"Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
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The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.
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If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.