I Think That The Core Doctrines Of

The Seminaries Must Face The Fact That They Are Not Turning Out Well-trained Professional Clergy. They Must Realize That Preaching Is Creative Work And That Some Element Of Creativity Should Be Required As A Condition For Ordination.

The Leadership Lost Its Nerve. Instead Of Taking The Lead In The Reform Movement... They Pulled The Plug On It. They Tried And Are Still Trying To Return The Church To The Dry Ice Of The Previous Century And A Half.

We Are Born With Two Incurable Diseases, Life, From Which We Die, And Hope, Which Says Maybe Death Isn't The End.

The Men Who Were Running The Church In The Late '60s And '70s Panicked When They Saw The Chaos, Which Developed After The Council. The Relatively Modest Changes Of Those Years Thawed The Ice In Which Catholicism Had Been Frozen Since The French Revolution.

God Draws Straight With Crooked Lines.