Quotes About Catholic

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

Our children are very much remaining Anglican, and I very much wish to remain and shall remain a Catholic.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.

pass your examinations. It is always a good thing to have a handle to your name: and, without more ado, give up your Catholic and Satanic poets, whose philosophy is as old as the twelfth century! Your despair is silly. The very greatest men have had more difficult beginnings, as in the case of Mirabeau.

boy is getting all Ds and Fs in math so his parents send him to Catholic school. On his first report card, his parents are shocked to see their son getting straight As. When his parents ask him why, he says, "Well, when I went into the chapel and saw that guy nailed to a plus sign, I knew they were serious.

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

A new austerity and prayerful privacy reigned. Oddly, this shift moved almost in lockstep with the growth of public musical theatre, as through the now idle impresarios o f the Catholic Church found fresh work in opera and oratorio.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

McCarthy was an Irish Catholic small-town judge and a dipsomaniac with a vengeful streak and an exaggerated war record as a Marine tail gunner (he had not actually flown in combat). "Ignorant, crude, boastful, unaware of either intellectual or social refinements

at the Catholic DePaul University, Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault were faithful translators as well as friends.