Quotes About Catholicism

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog; who ate flesh in Lent.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic—in terms of your feelings of guilt and remorse and whether you've sinned or not. Sometimes I'm wracked with guilt when I needn't be, and that, to me, is left over from my Catholic upbringing. Because in Catholicism you are born a sinner and you are a sinner all of your life. No matter how you try to get away from it, the sin is within you all the time.

nos enfrentamos a un eclipse de nuestra vida católica tradicional como fuerza visible con algún nivel de eficacia. También opino, eminencia, que el papa debe considerar la estructura tradicional de su Iglesia como algo inútil y pasado de moda, puesto que permite su decadencia. Si ésa no es su idea, no hay otra forma de comprenderlo que como totalmente aberrante y negligente de su responsabilidad pontificia como papa.

Particularmente mediante su participación en la teología de la liberación, los jesuitas habían contribuido de manera decisiva al alejamiento del catolicismo sudamericano y filipino de su aceptación sumisa de la autoridad tradicional, para fomentar movimientos guerrilleros armados y actividades políticas militantes. El antipapismo era ahora una característica jesuítica.

Author Evelyn Waugh was a Catholic who fell pretty woefully short of his faith's standards. Somebody asked Waugh one time, "How can you call yourself a Catholic and be so badly behaved, so mean, such a jerk, so spiteful?" Waugh responded, "Just imagine me if I were not a Catholic." And

Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or to remain Catholic, it was a terrible time. For once the original religion fragments, which religion then leads to salvation?

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

know that for centuries Catholic priests were allowed to be married? It was the First Lateran Council that changed that in the twelfth century. When there was pushback from the clergy, the Vatican began arresting and killing the wives. Some were even sold into slavery. To avoid this happening to their loved ones, the priests accepted the new rules. In a gracious touch, the surviving wives were allowed to be considered widows by the pope rather than divorcées.

Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be good, toe the line, and heaven is yours, the first prize in the lottery of eternity. Disobey, react, cut the lifeline, and never-ceasing damnation is the booby prize. The dogma is, love the only god and you shall be safe. Fail in that love and he will not rescue you, not until you crawl and apologize and fawn before the altar. What kind of a religion demands such indignity?

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Catholic guilt was the most destructive sort of guilt because the person that it concerned had no real concept of it. They didn't even realise that it existed. Catholic guilt was something that grew alongside the person, alongside their personality and, in many ways, it did them some good. They felt the need to help the less fortunate, and they felt the urge to make their children better than they were.

The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It is ours. No Mexicans need apply.

The dazzling white Sacré-Coeur, which went up in the Commune's aftermath, was erected in expiation for the sins of France, but its conservative Catholic promoters had little sympathy with the Communards. Not coincidentally, the basilica completely hides the ground where the cannons were parked and the uprising first broke out.

The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I thin, the true redemption, after all.

Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.

Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul de vina.