Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bauer

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

Fulton J. Sheen

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

Fulton J. Sheen

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Chris Matthews

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

Gordon Gee

You can’t trust those damn Catholics.

Harri Holkeri

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Ignatius of Antioch

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

Ignatius of Antioch

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

Ignatius of Loyola

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Ignatius of Loyola

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Jean Guitton

The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

Honore de Balzac

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

Douglas Hyde

For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.

H. L. Mencken

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

I don't think this is a show about the priesthood. This is a show about guys who are discerning their vocation to the priesthood. You learn a lot of things about priests, about the Catholic Church. But it's really about these guys and their struggles between two goods.

Neve Campbell

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

Nic Pizzolatto

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Evo Morales

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

Pat Robertson

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

Paul Begala

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Paul Samuelson

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Pat Buchanan

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Juanes

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

When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned.

Mark Wahlberg

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

Park Chan-wook

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

Kingsley Amis

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Marg Helgenberger

I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

Katie Holmes

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

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.