“The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.” KnowsCatholicConservativeVotersSwingsConservationHierarchy Author:John Green
“There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.” ThinkingChildrenValuesFatherParentNaturalWonderfulFineUniqueCatholicConservativeTendenciesLabelsSocialistCricketers Author:Richard Dawkins
“You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call a charismatic worship style, that means upbeat music and a more lively style of preaching usually, people are allowed to clap, say "Amen," whether they're mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and Catholics, whatever, they're much more likely to be integrated.” PeopleIfsMeanStyleParticularWorshipCatholicConservativePreachingLivelyIntegratedProtestantsAmenCharismaticDenominationsUpbeat Author:Michael Emerson
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” WorldWholeInspirationFaithNationsFamilyCatholicConservativeChristian InspirationalWhole WorldCatholic SaintCatholic Family Author:Pope John Paul II
“My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.” YearsMotherSocialJusticeIssuesRightsStyleCatholicSocial JusticeConservativeWomens RightsTribesOld FashionedBaroque Author:Geraldine Brooks
“...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.” PeopleIfsReligionAcceptingHonestGayCatholicSlaveryDefinitionsConservativeJournalistSecularProtestantsEvangelicalRoman CatholicAnti GayPro Slavery Author:John Shelby Spong
“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.” WorldEndsAgeTermBornWonderFiveCatholicAncientConservativeFeministRageEnd Of The WorldChileAncient Times Author:Isabel Allende
“I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.” HomeCareAgeMotherGuyParentWonderfulPrideGrewGayGrew UpDiedCatholicConservativeTraditionalOld AgeHealth CareNeighborhoodFloatsParadesOhioGay Pride Author:Gail Collins
“There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.” MenWorldMayLongCountryShowsCertainStepsHistoryHe ManBirthFitOrdinaryCatholicCourtConservativeSatisfactionLabourSenateOther CountriesParliamentProtestantsOrdinary ManBritish HistoryPageantPeruFilingEnglish HistoryLancaster Author:Josiah Wedgwood