“You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!” KnowsSchoolClassCatholicClownCatholic School Author:Sofia Vergara
“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.” MenMadeReasonBornClassMorningChildhoodMiddleTerribleMassAreasNegativeCatholicSlaveRaisedSevenUniversityHeavyClockMiddle ClassCatholicismChicagoEvery MorningUpbringingBorn And Raised Author:Chaka Khan
“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.” WellsChildrenStillsSelfStatesBodyRealityPoliticalChoicesChurchUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleIgnoranceDeterminationCatholicMalesIncludingProfessionMedicalLifestyleAlternativesAbortionDependentMiddle ClassSelf DeterminationDisguiseCatholic ChurchLegislatorsPhysicalityPharmaceuticalVeneerJurists Author:Adrienne Rich
“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.” LongMadeBornViewsClassPerspectiveCatholicBottomMy FavoriteMathRadicalAssumptionEngineeringBrutalWorking ClassLong LifeSkepticalConditioningDetachedElectricalGreat DepressionRationalismRadicalismCatholic FamilyImprintingElectrical Engineering Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.” PeopleYearsInterestingClassMediaLike YouCatholicBoringOld PeopleNun Author:Lino Rulli
“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
“I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.” LongMadeBigsKidsClassCatholicWho I AmMade ItIslandsWorking ClassI Am Who I AmLong Island Author:Bill O'Reilly
“I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.” YearsMeanPlaySchoolFunnyClassBoysCatholicHockeyNhlContentious Author:Keanu Reeves
“The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics … restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this … as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound.” LongCountryRunningEvilClassPovertyGrowingLowsCatholicVicesImmigrantsExcessMultitudesOverwhelmedRiotDrunkenness Author:John Pintard
“I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.” BornClassCatholicParisStrictUpper ClassCatholic Education Author:Francois Gautier
“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.” SchoolClassTeacherProjectsHigh SchoolCatholicThrown Author:Mike Judge