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 we can work through a lot of these issues.
The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.
Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.
Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.
No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
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.
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
