Quotes About Catholicism

El catolicismo es la doctrina de las abuelas y los policías de esquina. Mejor piensa en el mundo en que vivimos. ¿Qué cosa tan difícil de entender esta realidad, ¿no crees?

As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages.

Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK

Laymen are not allowed to carry around the blessed Host to throw at people.

his childhood Catholicism had never left him and he still derived comfort from a place of worship.

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

catholic poets only pray, no matter what they say

Senior came to learn that the Catholic Church respected the integrity and the goodness of the created order, and that her teachers would say, with Saint Thomas Aquinas, that the grace of God perfects nature rather than supplants it, and that all of our knowledge, including what we know about God himself, comes to us first through the senses.

How can it be that the homosexual movement, at one or two percent of the population, gets treated with such solicitude while the Catholic population, which is over a quarter of the country, is given the back of the hand?

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe we must protect life. Whenever abortion comes up, we get questioned about the exceptions, but no one ever questions the extreme positions on the other side: late-term abortions, no on parental notification.

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.

The interdependence of spiritual destinies, the plan of salvation; for me, that is the sublime and unique feature of Catholicism. I was just thinking a moment ago that the spectator-attitude corresponds to a form of lust; and more than that, it corresponds to the act by which the subject appropriates the world for himself. And I now perceive the deep truth of Bérulle's theocentrism. We are here to serve; yes, the idea of service, in every sense, must be thoroughly examined.

I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

I do believe in God. I was raised Catholic. For me, personally, I was always very thoughtful about projects that I chose for myself.