There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Under President Trump, our nation is going to make great strides toward protecting the unborn. Priests for Life is in the vanguard of the fight for life, and having the president with us, rather than against us, will make all the difference.
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.
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.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.