In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
From Andrew Greeley
Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.
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