“Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close deci...” — Frank Butler Quote

“Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.”

“When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.”

“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”

“The American Catholic Church made statements on racism as far back as the 1940s and '50s. 'Colored' Catholic girls could not live in the dorms at Catholic University - the bishops' university - up into the 1940s.”

“When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.”

“I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.”