Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Megan Fox

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

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.

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.

D. Elton Trueblood

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

Donald Wuerl

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Donatella Versace

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Doug Stanhope

The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

Dan Brown

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

Amber Heard

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

Anna Quindlen

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

Alfred Hitchcock

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

Andrew Greeley

God draws straight with crooked lines.

Andres Serrano

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

Anselm of Canterbury

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Alison Bechdel

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Angus Wilson

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Allen Ginsberg

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

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.

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.

Camille Guaty

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

Billy Connolly

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Billy Connolly

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

Brigham Young

I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

Bradley Cooper

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

Broderick Crawford

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Arthur Peacocke

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

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Elizabeth Strout

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

Antony Gormley

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