“I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.” Has BeensWarTodayBoysHugeCatholicRaisedAltarsLeading Me Author:John F. Kerry
“We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.” PeopleThinkingEndsCommonBoysGrowing UpGrowingInformationGrewGrew UpCatholicIgnorantBuddhistTiesThreadJust BeingCavesGlobalizationGhettoProtestantsKansasDenominationsCommon ThreadsKnowledge And Information Author:Richard Rohr
“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.” WayTryingYearsKindSchoolSpiritualSufferingReligiousBoysAchieveHigh SchoolCatholicRaisedLatterCatholicismEmbeddedMartyrdomPenancePrivate School Author:James Balog
“I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.” FeelsBoysCatholicGuiltyNaughtyNaughty Things Author:Steve Coogan
“I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.” PainJoyBoysCatholicRedeemed Author:Jim Carroll
“I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.” HandsChurchBoysCatholicPriestsAltarsCatholic ChurchRoman CatholicRoman Catholic ChurchBridesmaids Author:Dana Gould
“Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.” IfsChurchMoralBoysBirthAuthorityCatholicAltarsCatholic ChurchBirth ControlContraceptionMoral AuthorityUterus Author:Dana Gould
“The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.” YearsStillsStatesReasonSchoolLostBoysTeamFootballCatholicChampionshipSeniorJuniorsBest FootballFootball TeamCatholic SchoolSenior YearJunior Year Author:Theo Rossi
“Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.” WantedTurnsJesusChristBoysJesus ChristCatholicCheeksTurn The Other Cheek Author:Jim Carrey
“I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.” WayWellsLastsBoysNiceLateCatholicEducatedRespectfulVery NiceWell EducatedCatholic Family Author:Riccardo Tisci
“My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.” IfsWayFeelingsMotherThreeFatherStuffBoysCreativeBrotherCatholicSarcasticYellingCatholic FamilyFather And BrotherVery Sarcastic Author:Anthony Green