Catholic Quotes

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

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

For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

I became a Catholic against my will.

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

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

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.

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

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

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.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.