For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.
To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all.
Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
Only He who made man makes man happy.
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!
It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
