Quotes About Catholic

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

I grew up Catholic. The Catholic faith has played an integral role in my life. At the same time, I don't think that there is a single person that doesn't have some disagreements with their faith.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Two of my aunts are Catholic sisters.

I was brought up by four older sisters, so there's trouble right there. We are Catholic, very religious, and that sort of colors my world and my music.

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.

When a prominent Puritan named (all too appropriately, it would seem) John Stubbs criticized the queen's mooted marriage to a French Catholic, the Duke of Alençon, his right hand was cut off.*

In 1580, when William was sixteen, Campion passed through Warwickshire on his way to the more safely Catholic north. He stayed with a distant relative of Shakespeare's, Sir William Catesby, whose son Robert would later be a ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot.

In 1820, two years before the Catholic Church began permitting the teaching of heliocentrism

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.

Bastard was a term of affection between us, as it usually is in the sub-continent between men who share a Catholic missionary-school education.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.