Catholic Quotes

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I don't consider myself to be on a career path. I'm just a Christian and a Catholic priest.

Anger is fire. It burns inside. It destroys.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

I think the best part of being Catholic, strange as it might sound, is that I know it's right. It's true.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

I didn't know you were Catholic.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.