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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.
I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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.
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
I was a careless Protestant, my wife was a good Catholic, and we had six kids in seven years and I'd endorse that to everyone.
Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.
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.
As a practicing Catholic, I am shocked that the Catholic League is speaking out against my PETA ads, which I am very proud of.
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.
It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.
I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.
There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually.
One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It's crazy. I've made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.
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.
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."