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"The evidence of the quality of their lives is the hospice patients they comfort, the students they teach,... the poor they feed, the sick they nurse,... and the art they produce."

--Sister Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., commenting on the Vatican's "apostolic ap·os·tol·ic   ap·os·tol·i·cal
adj.
1. Of or relating to an apostle.

2.
a. Of, relating to, or contemporary with the 12 Apostles.

b.
 visitation VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation.
     2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174.
" of U.S. women religious communities ('National Catholic Reporter, Aug. 17)

"In the confessional, those are called rationalizations. Back in the day, they were called cop-outs. In my reading of the Good Book, they are simply called intolerable."

--Chuck Goudie, nixing efforts to excuse the behavior of 1970s and '80s Chicago church officials who arranged "sabbaticals" for pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia.  priests as typical of a "different era" (dailyherald.com, Aug. 10)

"Jesus didn't just say, feed the people in your country, clothe the people in your city."

--Sister Pat Murphy Pat Murphy may refer to one of the following individuals:
  • Patrice "Pat" Murphy, author
  • Pat Murphy (baseball coach)
  • Pat Murphy (BBC Radio Five Live reporter and sportswriter)
, responding to fellow Catholics who criticize her work among undocumented immigrants (Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune

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, Aug. 9)
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Title Annotation:signs of the times
Author:Clarke, Kevin
Publication:U.S. Catholic
Date:Oct 1, 2009
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