Catholic Quotes

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

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.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

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

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.