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"This is a lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout  of children by an arrogant archdiocese ... an archdiocese that has learned nothing from the clergy sex-abuse scandal."

--Kevin M. Carragee, chairman of a parents' group trying to save their Boston parochial school parochial school (pərō`kēəl), school supported by a religious body. In the United States such schools are maintained by a number of religious groups, including Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and , on the archdiocese's surprise cancellation of the final two days of school to prevent a sit-in by parents (Boston Globe, June 9, 2005)

"We should all work to maintain the tribe. I am a great believer in tribalism."

--Cardinal George Pell George Cardinal Pell, AC, (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal Pell currently serves as Archbishop of Sydney and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003.
 of Sydney, Australia, expressing concern that some Catholics do not send their children to Catholic schools (Catholic World News, June 2, 2005)

"When an ordinary person is given a middle finger sign, he will be mad. So am I."

--Thai Buddhist monk Boonlert Boonpan, explaining why he got into a fistfight with monks from a rival community in Bangkok (Reuters, May 31, 2005)

"I'm a man, not a machine. And a man with a heart can cry."

--Cardinal Joachim Meisner Joachim Cardinal Meisner (born 25 December 1933 in Breslau, Lower Silesia) is a Cardinal priest and Archbishop of Cologne in the Roman Catholic Church.

Meisner studied at the seminary of Erfurt, earning a doctorate in theology.
 of Cologne, Germany, on his reaction to the election of Pope Benedict XVI Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , whom he calls "the Mozart of theology" (Catholic World News, May 13, 2005)

"I wanted to make St. John's a sanctuary for everyone, including business people with laptops and mobiles."

--Keith Kimber, a Welsh vicar who installed a wireless broadband hotspot in his church (Net4Now UK, May 31, 2005)
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Date:Aug 1, 2005
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