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“From the beginning and throughout history, Peter has often been a wobbly rock, a source of scandal, corrupt, and yet this is the one – and his successors – whose task is to hold us together so that we may witness to Christ’s defeat on Easter Day of sin’s power to divide. And so the Church is stuck with me whatever happens. We may be embarrassed to admit that we are Catholics, but Jesus kept shameful company from the beginning.” <\/div>\n

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— Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., in London’s Tablet<\/a>, explaining why he stays Catholic.<\/div>\n
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