Catholic Quotes
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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
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If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
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I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
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When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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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.
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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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Harry Dresden: Pretty sure that Roman Catholic priests don't have peeps. Too trendy and ephemeral. Like automobiles. And the printing press.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything.
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The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?
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At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.
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I don't have any guilt. Because I grew up Catholic and with so much guilt, I've worked hard at getting rid of it.
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It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
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I'm a good Catholic - most of the time.
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I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.
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I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
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Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
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At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
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I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.
