Catholic Quotes
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As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
John Bright -
'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
Ian Caldwell
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
Hamza Yusuf -
Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
Janine di Giovanni -
Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.
Gene Cernan -
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.
Mary Gordon -
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
Paulo Coelho -
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.
Mario Cuomo
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All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
Mother Teresa -
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
Danny Masterson -
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
Park Chan-wook -
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
Dinesh D'Souza -
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
Marina Warner -
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
Bill Condon -
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
Damien Hirst -
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco -
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
George A. Romero -
It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold -
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
Pope Benedict XVI
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We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.
Jeff Fortenberry -
‘Why are pictures like this allowed?’ he suddenly cried. He had stopped in front of a colonial print in which the martyrdom of St Agatha was depicted with all the fervour that incompetence could command.‘It’s only a saint,’ said Lady Peaslake, placidly raising her head.‘How disgusting – and how ugly’‘Yes, very. It’s Roman Catholic.’
E. M. Forster -
Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.
Mark Wahlberg -
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
Carl Olson