Blase J. Cupich

People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes and sometimes not in others, and that opens the door for them to go elsewhere.

American Clergyman

Pope Benedict XVI

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

German Clergyman

Andrew Greeley

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Donald Wuerl

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.

Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

English Scientist

Glenn Beck

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

American Journalist

George Steiner

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

American Critic

David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

English Clergyman

Martin Scorsese

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

American Director

John Wesley

I look upon the whole world as my parish.

The parish is part of a church community where religious activities and fellowship occur.

Religious Community

Each parish is typically overseen by a parish priest responsible for spiritual guidance.

Local Clergy

A parish has specific geographic boundaries which determine its community members.

Geographic Boundaries

In Louisiana, a parish functions like a county and has its own local laws and government.

Legal Jurisdiction

A parish in Louisiana serves as an administrative division for governing the local area.

Administrative Division

The term 'parish' in the context of local government is unique to Louisiana in the United States.

Louisiana Specific

 happened he was speaking in a Protestant Church when you were brought up as a Catholic you think if you ever set foot in a Protestant Church you'll be struck dead at the threshold so I went to my father in tears what are we going to do he said don't worry he's speaking at a parish hall we're sitting and folding chairs he's talking about sportsmanship it's not a sin but as I left that night

Learning from past...

 that is very well resourced to deal with situations like that um so that's the main reason that it doesn't happen in a coordinated way is because it's really hard because the world is set up dominated by individual sovereign states and getting people to agree to do things multinational is very difficult that's why the parish agreement's so

We need to green the...

 That we were from just a small parish, which ignores life outside its immediate concerns. I wanted to try to feel what it was like to see our planet as one system, as a single object, hanging in space. To do this, I would need to switch from flat drawings for books to 3D sculpture for the street,

An ode to living on...

 and the scholar she takes as her lover. To get some time alone together, the scholar and the wife play various tricks that involve feigning madness, staging a biblical flood, and exposing themselves in public. But the parish clerk is also lusting after the wife,

Everything you need to...

 contemplative underscore and got me thinking brilliant for the first time we were just a small piece of an almost infinite universe before the flight I was a Catholic and had communion from my old parish priests but I must say that

Earthrise: The Story of...

 I'd like to do my my worry was that while I was the director program that some other parish it was good to go through and say what about this wonderful idea of doing the history of life and I couldn't in all conscience

Attenborough Talks About...

 runs down to three so that's the rest of obviously parish with a call over the summer Graham will continue to carry out regular bird counts but if the chicks continue to die in large numbers he may

Grouse Chicks Die from...

 five children from their parish were out on an outing near a town called Lakeview Oregon the minister was parking the car he led his wife out in the children they went into the forest he heard her

Japanese Balloon Bombs PIPE...

 a small parish in the southwest of England. Despite his keen administrative skills, Montagu is a corrupt politician, an adulterous husband, and an incessant, degenerate gambler.

How the sandwich was...

 He is a boy from a parish in Caracas who passionately attended to his double bass lessons at the San Agustin's Junior Orchestra. With his effort,

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