36 Quotes by William P. Leahy

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.

Clearly there are individuals who don’t understand what the church teaches, or they think it’s so limiting.

What we’re about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

The Spirit hasn’t deserted the church today.

We’ve always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that’s how it is.

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.

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.

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.