Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...

Bill Vaughan

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Bertrand Russell

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

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Ryan Coogler

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.

Ryan Coogler

I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic school.

Megan Fox

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

Alice McDermott

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

Marco Rubio

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

Woody Allen

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

One thing Mark is committed to is Protestant/Catholic dialogue. Notre Dame is a good place to do that. There are lots of serious Catholics and Protestants who want to think about those issues.

One of the monologues describes a 16-year-old girl's experience of rape by an older woman as salvation. In light of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church, it is not only insensitive but offensive for a Catholic institution to perform a play that presents rape as healing for the victims.

I would go into synagogues and talk to people before that concert and they would say, 'Oh, the pope and the Catholic Church -- you know what they did to us at the Holocaust and ... after that concert -- Wow. I would go out after that concert and people were astonished.

Theodore Hesburgh

I have a lot to be humble about, ... I'd like to say that it's the happiest day of my life, but it isn't: The happiest day of my life was when I was anointed a Catholic priest.

Hanna Rosin

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

What we would like them to do is send them a message that this kind of hate speech which is designed to intimidate Catholics from engaging in public discussions can't be tolerated.

Andrew Greeley

God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God is lurking everywhere. Right down the street, right around the corner, there's God.

Juanes

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

If child molestation is actually your concern, how come we don't see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches?

Martin McGuinness

Four Catholics have been shot dead by the loyalists.

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Madeleine Albright

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

We're right where we want to be in the Catholic League race. We have a big date coming up with St. Rita at the end of the year and we need to keep winning until then.

Bill Maher

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