Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethel Waters

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

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.

Wesley Clark

Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church.

Georgetown University can't be Catholic if the faculty is not on board.

Frederik Pohl

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Geoffrey Fisher

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Chris Hayes

I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?

George Carlin

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

Francis Arinze

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

team with the white evangelical church and the Catholic church to deal with moral issues.

Stephen Frears

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

Flannery O'Connor

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Any school that closes, we will guarantee there will be a seat in a nearby Catholic school.

St. Patrick is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of New York. As such, we celebrate March 17 as a feast day and all Catholics in the archdiocese get a dispensation from the Lenten requirements for that day.

Andrew Greeley

Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.

John Hume

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

Julie Brown

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

This is an extreme Catholic position that is not justifiable in the context of even the Catholic health ethical guidelines on the treatment of women who've been raped.

Evo Morales

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

James Dyson

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Park Chan-wook

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

Mark Wahlberg

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