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“I am saddened that many friends of Notre Dame have suggested that our invitation to President Obama indicates ambiguity in our position on matters of Catholic teaching. The University and I are unequivocally committed to the sanctity of human life and to its protection from conception to natural death. Notre Dame has a long custom…

“To a certain extent Christianity is always going to be counter-cultural. It cannot become a religious apology for what contemporary culture happens to believe at any moment in time. But at the same time we have to translate the realities of the Gospel in ways that can be understood by modern culture, and restructure the…

“I figured, ‘I’m a bishop — I’m not going to tell them to attack Notre Dame with a pitchfork.’ I’m going to tell them to go pray.” — Orlando Bishop Thomas Wenski,discussing a Mass of Reparation he plans to celebrate over the Notre Dame mess.

“For the foreseeable future, the institution of the church will continue to shrink, and the number of priests and sisters will become steadily smaller. Even as new forms of lay ministry expand, the reconfiguration of the institutions and agencies of the church will have to be accomplished cooperatively. For their part, lay people are eager…
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