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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.

— Samuel Butler

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

— Thomas Paine

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

— Ian Hart

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

— Trevor Phillips

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.

— Peter Jurasik

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.

— Andrew Greeley

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

— Cheech Marin

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?

— William P. Leahy

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.

— Andrew Greeley

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

— Peter Hollingworth

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.

— William P. Leahy