Catholic Quotes - Page 24

I became a Catholic against my will.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

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

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.