Quotes About Catholicism

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

He hasn't reneged on Catholicism entirely. Pope Francis he thinks impressive: "A remarkable guy. A breath of fresh air." Catholic social teaching is still in his head, along with the "golden rule" every boy was taught at Xavier: "It was at the heart of the Jesuit call to be a 'man for others.' And I have spent my working life, both representing workers and as parliamentarian, trying to measure up to this standard of compassion and empathy.

Science is to mathematics as Protestantism is to Catholicism, an irrational protest against reason, based on faith.

For her, being Catholic isn't just about religion-it's about superstition and safekeeping and tradition.

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition?

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.

So far as his beliefs about the primary world were concerned, Tolkien was a traditional, orthodox Catholic. So far as his subcreated world was concerned, he claimed the right to say, not how things are, but how, within the limits set by his fundamental beliefs, they could be.

I was raised Catholic. I went to church every Sunday with my family, then came home and got beaten up by my old man. He beat God right out of me.

whereas the Catholic Church is unified under a pope, the Orthodox world is more an assemblage of "independent local Churches" that are "highly flexible" and "easily adapted to changing conditions.

whereas the Catholic Church is unified under a pope, the Orthodox world is more an assemblage of "independent local Churches" that are "highly flexible" and

It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of Hinduism, the untouchables, who fell beyond the pale of the caste system had ample reason to convert to Catholicism. The caste-Hindus, as a matter of fact, left them no choice. As sub-humans they were little better than slaves.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

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

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.