Catholic Quotes

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

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.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.