“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.” ShouldBelieveDoeMatterStatesAmericaSpeakI BelievePresidentChurchAbsolutesCatholicI Believe InSeparationChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateSeparation Between Church And State Author:John F. Kennedy
“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindAmericaCenturyNew YorkAreasCatholicWho I AmItalianImpressedUrban20th CenturyDecencyDowntownRoman CatholicItalian AmericanSkid Row Author:Martin Scorsese
“But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.” ShouldBelieveKindHas BeensImportantRealStatesAmericaReligionI BelievePresidentChurchIssuesResponsibleCatholicI Believe InCampaignsQuarters Author:John F. Kennedy
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!” PeopleIfsHas BeensStillsDifferentAmericaGirlThreeAttitudeClearOur LivesCuttingBabyCatholicAppearanceImpressionAfrican AmericanInternalsCapabilityThree TimesClassification Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.” BelieveAmericaI BelieveChurchReligiousLibertyCatholicI Believe InSeparationTreatedChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestantsSeparation Between Church And StateIndivisibleReligious Liberty Author:John F. Kennedy
“Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the network brass - if you joke about doctors, lawyers, dentists, scientists, bus drivers, I don't care who. You can't make a joke about Catholics, Negroes, Jews, Italians, politicians, dogs or cats. In fact, politicians, dogs and cats are the most sacred institutions in America.” IfsFactsCareAmericaDogPoliticianJokesCatDoctorsScientistCatholicInstitutionsSacredJewDon't CareLawyerI Don't CareDriversBusViewersDentistBrassSponsorsCat And DogBus Driver Author:Johnny Carson
“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.” WayYearsAmericaPresidentWhiteStudentsCollegeJudgingRepublicanGayMembersCatholicDemocraticMalesCongressSavedAfrican AmericanCombatMexicanSurgeonsKoreanAmerican PresidentCollege StudentsMexican American Author:Mark Shields
“It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.” SoulStatesAmericaBeliefResultsCatholicHatedApathySuspiciousProtestantsAccommodations Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsTodayAmericaDifficultMiddleCenturyMovementJudgingStandardsYears AgoCatholicRejectedProtestants19th Century Author:Steve King
“For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.” KindChildrenMadeRealMightTogetherAmericaStrongNationsFeltChurchCommonClassMillionsConcernRootsBaseballCatholicBoundsLoyaltyEnthusiasmRegionsRitualInchesSecularHierarchyAntagonism Author:Philip Roth
“By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the more I studied about the Bible and how it came about, the more I lost my faith.” AmericaLostCatholicLeavingUniversityPriestsNun Author:Susan Sarandon
“In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.” FactsAmericaOpinionCatholicGreat ThingsPlenty Author:Tim Kaine
“The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are Catholics, but that is an American religion. One-third of our population is Catholic so that does not have the same impact as Muslims coming into Europe.” DoeHas BeensCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEuropeThirdsCatholicImpactSouthPopulationImmigrantsMexicoSouth America Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.” MatterChristianAmericaPleaseWorshipCatholicAtheistJewGreat ThingsEntitledAgnosticModeratesEvangelical Author:Karl Rove
“That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.” IfsMenAmericaCatholicCatholicismSovereignAllegianceMisconception Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980's primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves.” ThinkingNeedsWarHelpingAmericaChurchRolesHonorCivilizationElementsCatholicWesternPrimeContrastOrganizeHonorableCatholic ChurchWestern CivilizationVery PositiveThose In NeedCentral America Author:Noam Chomsky
“Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.” ThinkingBigsSchoolAmericaMovingChurchWealthCompanyTelevisionAreasTheaterCatholicWinePlantOilChainsGasHotelStationsFarmsFactoriesSteelResortsCatholic ChurchPrintingMillsSupermarketsWarehouseOil CompaniesGas StationsBig Oil Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.” PeopleCountryAmericaBeliefHonestBuildingWindowCatholicStructureCuriousOddTemplesLoyalImpressiveAvenuesLifelongColumnsMarbleGrandeurHardworkingConnecticutSpires Book:Clear and Present Danger Source: Clear and Present Danger
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.” PeopleMenShouldBelieveStatesGovernmentMightSchoolAmericaPoliticalPoliticsI BelievePresidentChurchOfficeVoteAbsolutesCatholicI Believe InSeparationCivil RightsGrantedMinistersFundDeniedPreferenceChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestantsSeparation Between Church And StatePublic OfficeCatholic Religion Author:John F. Kennedy
“In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.” ChildrenWarCountryReasonGovernmentSchoolAmericaGirlSidesReligiousCommonTalkingLeaderBoysWiseCenturyPolicyWeakCatholicUnionsAtheistCoreCommunismPrimariesPropagandaEtcEmpiresCheerSovietIntoleranceSoviet UnionConvincingProtestantsReligious IntoleranceHungariansUnitarian Author:Marshall Fritz
“The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses"-our America trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.” MenSaidSoulDreamEyeAmericaJusticeSunBedDaughterAnd LoveCatholicSocial JusticeRoseCarefulNobleBe CarefulHurricanesTremblingColumbusLife And DreamsBed Of RosesDreams And Love Author:Ruben Dario
“I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.” I CanStatesAmericaReligionBeliefChurchUnitedUnited StatesAtheismCatholicAtheistJewSeparationArticlesUnited States Of AmericaChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestants Author:John F. Kerry
“I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.” BelieveBodyAmericaI BelieveChurchReligiousLibertyAcceptingPolicySourceCatholicI Believe InSeparationTreatedOfficialsInstructionPopeCouncilRequestChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestantsPublic PolicySeparation Between Church And StateIndivisibleReligious LibertyPublic OfficialsProfiles In CourageCatholic Religion Author:John F. Kennedy
“Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.” MenBelieveKindEndsAmericaPastReligionChoicesI BelieveChurchReligiousLevelsAttitudeDemocracyEqualIdealsVoteCatholicLaysJewI Believe InEvery ManTreatedVotingSomedayDivisionBrotherhoodIntoleranceChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestantsRefrainDisdainSeparation Between Church And StateReligious Intolerance Author:John F. Kennedy