Pastoral Resources

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

There is no one true church.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?