Quotes About Catholicism

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Brunetti was certain she had gone to Catholic schools: it was only there that children mastered the alchemical formula of untruth and hypocrisy that was sure to persuade even the most sceptical listener.

A noise recalled him to Saint-Sulpice; the choir was leaving; the church was about to close. "I should have tried to pray," he thought. "It would have been better than sitting here in the empty church, dreaming in my chair--but pray? I have no desire to pray. I am haunted by Catholicism, intoxicated by its atmosphere of incense and candle wax. I hover in its outskirts, moved to tears by its prayers, touched to the very marrow by its psalms and chants.

A fin de conquistar el mundo para el catolicismo romano, el Vaticano formo y financio la maquinaria de guerra de Hitler y los jesuitas prepararon secretamente la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hitler, Mussolini y Franco serian los defensores de la fe.

I hid you from them, you know, she said—like she was looking into my head finally. Seeing something there. That's how you got here. They were hella good Catholics back then, but you would have been dust. From who?

Si tratta delle pagine iniziali della primissima edizione de Il senso religioso, pubblicata nel 1958 con l'imprimatur della Curia di Milano e stampata dalla Presidenza Diocesana Milanese della Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica. Del libro uscirono nuove edizioni, rivedute e ampliate, nel 1968, nel 1986 e nel 1997 (Rizzoli).

Padre,' Tomás replied, 'my only confession is that I do not believe in confession.

Stories abound of Waters confirming black and white children together in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Raleigh, of his insisting on having white and black acolytes at masses at which he presided, and of his requiring the diocesan newspaper to cover the activities of black Catholics and their parishes with as much interest as they covered those of white Catholics in the diocese.

black Catholic theology must be at once critically political and deeply mystical.

I am settled," she said, "in the ancient Roman Catholic religion, and mind to spend my blood in defense of it.

Mary Tudor's most vaunted policy had been to restore Catholicism

Catholicism is a deep matter. You cannot take it up in a teacup" [..] "You must consent to think.

Father Alfonso and Father Octavio could make Pepe feel as if he were a betrayer of the Catholic faith—as if he were a raving secular humanist, or worse. (Could there be anyone worse, from a Jesuitical perspective?) Father Alfonso and Father Octavio knew their Catholic dogma by rote; while the two priests talked circles around Brother Pepe, and they made Pepe feel inadequate in his belief, they were irreparably doctrinaire.

There's no stopping the Catholic Church," Nora had said. "You shouldn't try to stop them; all you can do is try to control the damage they do." Grace

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.

Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.