- Father Greg Pilkington: [addressing Father Redstone in Latin] Abi et futue te ipsum, sordide senex.
- [Translation: Go fuck yourself, you dirty old man]
- Father Greg Pilkington: When we were in seminary, it was a sort of standard question: a man tells you in confession that he's poisoned the altar wine. Do you still go out and say Mass? Now, I had no problem with that: I'd go out and say Mass, drink the wine. There's a bit of the martyr in all of us.
- Father Greg Pilkington: And how would you feel if someone robbed your car?
- Boy Car Thief: I haven't got one.
- Father Greg Pilkington: Well, suppose you did.
- Boy Car Thief: I'd get a weed-on.
- Father Greg Pilkington: Exactly. I'd get a... weed-on too.
- Boy Car Thief: You haven't got a car.
- Father Greg Pilkington: Well, what about Father Matthew?
- Boy Car Thief: No one would wanna rob his car, would they?
- Father Greg Pilkington: Because he's a priest?
- Boy Car Thief: Because it's crap!
- Father Greg Pilkington: [seeing the housekeeper's neck brace] So, you've hurt your neck, have you?
- Housekeeper: [sarcastically] No, I'm a dedicated follower of fashion.
- [She escorts him to his room and opens the door]
- Father Greg Pilkington: Thank you.
- Housekeeper: Dinner at 7:30 - dead pig.
- Charge Sergeant: [Father Pilkington is being charged with public indecency] Occupation?
- [Father Pilkington is too embarrassed to answer]
- Charge Sergeant: What's your job?
- Father Greg Pilkington: Priest.
- Charge Sergeant: Catholic?
- Father Greg Pilkington: [quietly] Yes.
- Charge Sergeant: [grinning] You little devil!
- Father Greg Pilkington: [Father Redstone has been addressing Father Pilkington in Latin] You've lost me, I'm afraid.
- Father Redstone: I said: I know all about you. You're a boil on the body of Christ. A monstrous, living, breathing boil, ready to erupt at any moment into pus, and blood, and stench.
- Father Greg Pilkington: I think I preferred it in Latin.
- Father Matthew Thomas: The creation of mankind only started on the sixth day. It hasn't stopped yet. We're taller than we were a thousand years ago. We're fitter, faster. We live longer. We're better educated. More informed. So, creation... is an ongoing process. And if you interfere with it with it, aren't you spitting in the face of God? If you exploit your work force, don't you spit in the face of God? If you kill and maim, throw people out of their homes, turn your back on the elderly, If you shut down schools and hospitals, force people out on the dole - In fact, if you do anything... to prevent one single human being reaching their full potential, aren't you interfering in creation and spitting in the face of God? That's what I believe. That's my truth. That's what made me become a priest, and makes me remain a priest. The peace of the Lord be with you always.
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