“I think it’s great at one level. It might just be the thing that will make her, but she is a very vulnerable person and it could be quite difficult. It is a great opportunity for her and as far as I am concerned she should make the best of it, and if it lasts, it lasts, and if it doesn’t, then it’s still more than almost any one of us will ever achieve.”

— Fr. Basil Clark, dean of West Lothian, Scotland, 

discussing the sudden fame of Susan Boyle, whom he describes as a “woman of great faith.”