Quotes by Eugene Kennedy - Page 1

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Friendship
Friends
Real Friends
Simple
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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Communication
Sacred
Silence
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Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.
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Breathe
Mercy
Spirit
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As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Authoritarianism
Bishops
Discover
Dutiful
Hierarchical
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From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Pope
Transformation
Francis
Spoken
Vatican
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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.
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Movie
Actors
Disaster
Games
Growth
Parlor
Same Time
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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 / Psychologist
Glory
Grief
May
Pain
Sadness
Sentiments
Thank God
Constitute
Well
Thank
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The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
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Deepest
Inexhaustible
Object
Possibilities
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The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Forgiveness
Degrees
Forgiving
Littles
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The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.
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Pope
Sinning
Turns
World Suffering People
Francis
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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 / Psychologist
Friendship
Friends
Real
Simple
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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 / Psychologist
Friendship
Enjoy
Moments
Real
Simple
Person
Nothing
Those
Literally
Other
Test
Utterly
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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 / Psychologist
Catholicism
Holiness
Sin
Resembles
Survives
Understands
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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
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Death
Beautiful
Happy Times
Summer
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Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Doe
Hurt
Trying
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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 / Psychologist
Friendship
Depth
Gambling
Aspirations
Chip
Fits
Fulfills
Possibilities
Whose
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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.
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Heavy
Human Experience
Messages
Traffic
World War Ii
World War
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The seminary of the future must relate itself to flesh-and-blood men, or it provides a framework that only talks about the people of God but never really shares life with them.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Framework
Relate
Seminary
Life God Future
Provides
Shares
Talks
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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 / Psychologist
Boston
Buried
Dying
Funeral
Passing
Priesthood
Miss
Dead
Clerical
Harbor
Spectacle
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The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
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Future
Mistress
Mother
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Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Battered
Cycles
Eternity
Human Experience
Life And Death
Light
Moon
Seeking
Stealing
Sun
Life Death Experience
Gives
Resembles
Tracks
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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.
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Focused
Imperfection
Sheer
Uncharted
Allowed
Attracted
Depths
Feature
Love People Perfect
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Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Blink
Following
Opening
Month
Earlier
Round
To The Moon
Trip
Vatican
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Pope Francis reminds us of Pope John XXIII because both men share the same lack of self-consciousness, and neither needs to keep his guard up through the use of psychological defenses such as rationalization, projection or intellectualization.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Pope
Projection
Psychological
Self Consciousness
Francis
Guard
Neither
Reminds
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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.
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Family Members
Loss
Parent
Exacerbate
Facebook
Indirectly
Posting
Spoken
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Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
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Fixed
Watches
Claim
Ecclesiastical
Manufacture
Relic
Offered
Pocket
Resemble
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Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.
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Death
Disappointment
Mean
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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.
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Loyalty
Acceptance
Authority
Bishops
Latter
Pope
Tests
Absolute
Commands
Presented
Roman
Sting
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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.
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Absolute Power
Divine
Foundation
Marble
Spread
Stones
Structure
Absolute
Broad
Invest
Hierarchies
Lesser
Ranks
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The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Disappear
Horizon
Limitless
Perception
Roots
Unified
Challenged
Event
Held
Seemingly
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Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Blow
Bottom
Clergy
Concerts
Crowds
Devoted
Pope
Rock Concerts
Standing
Festival
Francis
Hierarchical
They Say
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Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.
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Clubs
Exclusive
Hats
Funny Men Women
Women Are
Admitted
Businesses
Elaborate
Funny Women Men
Restricted
Status
Token
Wherever
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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 / Psychologist
Awards
Papers
Priests
Taught
Universe
Aged
God Good Enough
Anonymously
Nearly
Clerical
God Good Look
Nuns
Obituaries
Receive
Servants
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9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Forgiveness
Plead
Revealed
Same Thing
Spouses
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There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Encouragement
Forgiveness
Being Different
Different
Greek
Half
Imperfection
Missing
Myth
Order
Perfection
Need
Us
Always
Being
Arises
Were
Possible
Complete
Would
Ourselves
Searching
Tells
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We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Crowded
Defining
Fabric
Uncommon
Encounter
Richest
Shine
Stir
Tear
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Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Following
Function
Hierarchy
John Paul
Relentless
Restoration
Central
Concept
Paul
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The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Being Human
Catholic
Good Life
Human Condition
Imperfect
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Condition
Life Good Together
Eliminate
Embracing
Essential
Foremost
Ingredient
Lies
Perfectly
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There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.
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Art
Cutting
Order
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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 / Psychologist
Church
Fitting
Goodness
Ordinary
Spread
True Faith
Witness
Allowed
Love Faith Work
Brought
Love Faith Time
Large
Refer
Segment
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The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Existence
Glowing
Illumination
Intensity
Moments
Ordinary
Powerful
Slender
Steady
Truth Is
Element
Faint
Low
Obscured
Runs
Seemingly
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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 / Psychologist
Wedding
Cake
Cosmos
Levels
Unified
Fractured
Heavens
Hierarchical
Match
Multiply
Reflect
Revelation
Separated
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Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Buzz
Congregation
Doctrine
Formation
Legacy
Pope
Pundits
Resignation
Stunning
Surprise
Term
Theology
German
Claimed
Further
Informed
Professor
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In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Ocean
April
Bleeding
Debris
Ears
Everyday
Long Way
Murmuring
Passengers
Fills
Possessions
Rhythmic
Seas
Slasher
Speaks
Titanic
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The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Feels
Footwear
Heard
Hotel
Ordinary
Pay
Traditional
Seen
Bill
Follows
Francis
Himself
John
Pair
Peasant
Preferred
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Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.
Eugene Kennedy / Psychologist
Bishops
Church
Council
Familiar
Ministers
New Life
Priests
Seems
Since
Brought
Catholics
Francis
Pastors
Vatican
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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 / Psychologist
Awe
Council
Existence
Holy
Penalties
Pope
Symbols
Understood
Reveals
Spoke
Vatican
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