Bishop Quotations | Page 2

I think it's a nice gesture on the part of Bishop Lori to recognize volunteers in the church. They've always had programs to recognize high profile people and this is a nice way to recognize the people in the trenches.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!"

We have not had bishops tell us we're treading on the bishops' authority. If they did, we would back off.

energetic and vigorous about rooting out all those bishops who have kept priests in positions of ministry where they can harm children again.

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

We don't believe that anything will change until bishops are held accountable for their actions.