I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

A couple of these things are errors in judgment by a person who has a lot of potential but who was young and ambitious and didn't really think things through. He will continue to be our baseball coach.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.