Father Timothy Radcliffe quote: "Having worked with bishops and priests, diocesan and religious, all over the world, I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met."

I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedica...
FATHER TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

And we may presume that God will continue to call both homosexuals and heterosexuals to the priestho...
FATHER TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humani...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Spec...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that h...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Refo...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any sto...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly ...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I ha...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
FATHER ANDRE

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
FATHER THOMAS

To file a suit in the court is very expensive. Poor people cannot pay. We can give them free legal a...
FATHER THOMAS

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, M...
FATHER THOMAS

Congratulations Stephen, ... I'm glad I could be here for that last score...you were really impressi...
FATHER THOMAS

Right, ... It's amazing that you all ended up on the same team.
FATHER THOMAS

Good work today, Stephen,
FATHER THOMAS

I am very happy. When he went through the door, the last time they showed him, it was very heartfelt...
FATHER THOMAS

[Within that] relatively focused ... out of 56 questions there is only one on homosexuality.
FATHER THOMAS

As a great sign of this whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the s...
FATHER THOMAS

[But the Jesuit in charge of the California Province described Chevedden as having had] a paranoid p...
FATHER THOMAS

But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And...
FATHER DIOSCUROS

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being b...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
ANN RADCLIFFE

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o...
ANN RADCLIFFE

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasu...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I&#...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the exciteme...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closi...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there so...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Har...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into th...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mi...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolut...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person w...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who th...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terr...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and s...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour ...
ANN RADCLIFFE

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
ANN RADCLIFFE

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most deli...
ANN RADCLIFFE

The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the min...
ANN RADCLIFFE

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly...
ANN RADCLIFFE

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world...
ANN RADCLIFFE

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleas...
ANN RADCLIFFE

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant min...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
ANN RADCLIFFE

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; ...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

If this doesn't get you exhilarated, then nothing in life will excite you,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent rea...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to man...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music a...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of th...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I don't like going away from my children.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, t...
ANN RADCLIFFE

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world
ANN RADCLIFFE

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn'...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffe...
ANN RADCLIFFE

He talked about it having a central spine with these little offshoots, I guess you'd call them nerve...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is o...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shou...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people aro...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I have never said I was doubling up for both titles,
PAULA RADCLIFFE

It wasn't easy. It was my plan to keep a good pace going.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

It's definitely very special - right up there with running the world record,
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I f...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yo...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable -...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

In late 2003, those big names, Siebel, Oracle, SAP, they all decided over a period of months that th...
JOHN RADCLIFFE

Me and Harry are not very good with women. I've got better now. But I think any man ever who says he...
DAN RADCLIFFE

I love it. Until recently, I'd seen a peek of it in the catalogue but not actually seen the real thi...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

In England, there's so much history that you feel a part of history even when you're really not,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

If you look at each individual part of my face they look exactly like part of my face. Together it's...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

There's never enough time to do nothing!
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

This has given me a feeling of confidence, ... which I might not have had otherwise.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

The whole series is about the loss of innocence, ... In the first one ['The Sorcerer's Stone'], ever...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It is really strange, but very exciting.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

People would have been disappointed had it not got an M-rating, or not a higher rating than it had g...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

We don't kill them off, though. That's an important thing to realize.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

The whole series is about the loss of innocence. In the first one ['The Sorcerer's Stone'], everyone...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's just a bizarre experience.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

We're now old enough to appreciate scenes being analyzed and broken down,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

In a way, ... growing up like this with Harry makes it easier to act in each of the films, because I...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

We are not absolutely confirmed as doing them all. We are confirmed to do the fifth but after that w...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Thing is, it's very easy to be righteous from a distance. It's his life. It's not my business to say...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I had a big crush on her when I first met her, definitely.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

As you grow up, you realize from the age of 14 or so, you grow extra emotions somehow, and I think H...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I had a big crush on her when I first met her, definitely. But she's more like a sister now, so it w...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's been an odd five years, but it's been great,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think I'm highly normal. I'm attending school after acting, I'm going out with friends, going to t...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

No no, not boxers, they look like these kind of swimming trunks type thing, underwear, and it's the ...
DAN RADCLIFFE

He suffers from the same frailties and hormonal-related problems as all sorts of people his age, but...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

The fourth one was incredibly, much more so, much more physical than the first ones. It's I think si...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

With these kids now, there's so much now that they can get into trouble with. There's so much more t...
DOTTIE RADCLIFFE

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

In theory I'm naked underneath.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls, ... I think any guy who says...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

He has returned his medals, voluntarily.
CLEMENT RADCLIFFE

We are older now, ... so it is good for us to feel like we're not just child actors any more. We've ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the O...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be se...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

When I was reading book six, there were parts I was reading and going, 'Oh, I would love to do that....
DAN RADCLIFFE

As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...
ANN RADCLIFFE

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered to...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

With the exception of the start-up money used for next year's Project Graduation, every penny donate...
DOTTIE RADCLIFFE

When I graduated high school, all there was for us to do was go to the beach and drink.
DOTTIE RADCLIFFE

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worr...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
ANN RADCLIFFE

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few y...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot s...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Including Hermione!
DAN RADCLIFFE

I like Rupert, I get on with Rupert, we are friends and when we are on set together we have a good l...
DAN RADCLIFFE

I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been 'no limits.' I don...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

It's more the reputation, the glamour of being national champions.
CLEMENT RADCLIFFE

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: sh...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright,...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

We could get away with more because we were a bit younger.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who y...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my Go...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

In the marathon anything can happen.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day o...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just com...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries s...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off f...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an u...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off f...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I'm not much of a cake person.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Personally, I prefer the dark side.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Though it is difficult to put precise figures on works of this type, these items were of the very hi...
JULIAN RADCLIFFE

They have a very strong moral and legal claim to those minutes and papers.
JULIAN RADCLIFFE

Having worked with bishops and priests, diocesan and religious, all over the world, I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met.

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Having worked with bishops and priests, diocesan and religious, all over the world, I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met.

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