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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

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.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.