If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols – its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence – in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
