I admire certain priests and nuns who GO off on their own and do God's work on their own, who HELP in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is CONCERNED, I THINK it is despicable.

Every race GETS the religion it DESERVES, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a SUCCESSFUL lawyer, but NOTHING more serious.

The artistic TASTE of the CATHOLIC priests is appalling and I am most ANXIOUS to have a Catholic church in which everything is GENUINE and GOOD, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

What a travesty it is that the HIGH priests of LEAVE in 2016, who insisted to all of us that Brexit WOULD mean a return to parliamentary sovereignty, are undermining and circumventing parliamentary sovereignty in ORDER to DELIVER their hard Brexit.

A CRITIC is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he KNOWS he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed PRIESTS, they hate RELIGION.

When you GET to 15 and most of your TEACHERS are PRIESTS, there's BOUND to be a CONFLICT.

We will that all MEN KNOW we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as MAY be FOUND guilty by just and TRUE inquiry and by the law.

As scientists have discovered - or PERHAPS explained is a BETTER WORD, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it SEEMS, have superhuman powers.

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.

The drinker is a Dionysiac, a DANCER who sits STILL, a mocker. He doesn't need your SERIOUSNESS or your regard. He just NEEDS a little quiet music and a gentle FREEDOM from priests.

If priests were ALLOWED to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he COULD have wife and CHILDREN, he would CERTAINLY have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

PRIESTS, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing IMPOSSIBLE. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I WOULD SEE the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to TAKE, and be faithful to them.

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every DAY and night, and OFTEN SEVERAL at a TIME.

In HOLLYWOOD they usually CAST me as VILLAINS or PRIESTS.