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Our human experience, like the World War II Ultra code-breaking machine, catches the heavy traffic of messages about what we really do and what is done to us every day.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: About Day Done Every Every Day Experience Heavy Human Human Experience Like Machine Messages Our Really Traffic Us War World World War World War Ii

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Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Aged Awards Culture Enough Get God Good Like Lives Look Many Nearly Never Nuns Obituaries Only Papers People Priests Printed Receive Servants Taught Universe Who

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9/11 allowed us to witness the ordinary face of goodness in the love that those about to die brought with them to work that day. It is fitting that we refer to a large segment of the church year as Ordinary Time because it describes the look of the true faith that, as we read of the Kingdom, is spread about us.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: About Allowed Because Brought Church Day Die Face Faith Fitting Goodness Kingdom Large Look Love Ordinary Read Refer Segment Spread Them Those Time True Us Witness Work Year

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Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Aspirations Chip Depth Does Fits Friendship Fulfills Gambling Human Possibilities Something Whose

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Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Actually Because Catholicism Even Family Holiness Imperfection Live Resembles Sin Survives Understands

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We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Also Disaster Future Game Growth Industry Made Movie Only Parlor Same Same Time Time

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The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Enjoy Friendship Life Literally Moments Nothing Other Person Real Simple Test Those Utterly You

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The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Boston Buried Dead Dying Funeral Harbor Miss Needs Nobody Passing Priesthood Spectacle State

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Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Absolute Acceptance Always Authority Because Bishops Cannot Commands Express Feel His Latter Loyalty May Often Pope Presented Roman Sting Teaching Tests Themselves

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As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Bishops Control Discover Down Soon Top Tradition

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 18th, 1928

Died: June 3rd, 2015

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