“I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.” FirstsRealWould BeWantedSchoolDecidedCatholicBizarrePrepsUnderstatement Author:John Hurt
“Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.” PeopleTwoDifferentProblemTogetherMovingCertainCultureLandMy FamilyDecidedCatholicIntentionHolidayContinentsProtestantsPilgrimDifferent CulturesBest Intentions Author:Christopher Titus
“At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear [John] O'Connor yelling, `Over my dead body will you replace any of those workers! They have a right to strike.' So I figured, `This is interesting.'” BodyInterestingNew YorkDecidedCatholicWorkersStrikesHospitalsYelling Author:Nat Hentoff
“When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.” FeelsWritingBookFeltMinesGrewGrew UpDecidedEnglandCatholicMovedOfficialsBritainMarchSomewhere ElseCradlePostcardsEnglish HistoryExtractionCromwell Author:Hilary Mantel
“In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.” WayIdeasRealityBoysFocusMysteryLateDecidedCatholicUniversityPhysicsContemplatingTeensAnother WayDiscussingPriesthoodSeminaryBelfast Author:Stephen Curry
“I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they wouldn't even have a religion if it wasn't for capital punishment.” IfsThinkingChurchMy OwnDecidedCatholicPunishmentDisappointedCatholic ChurchHypocriticalCapital Punishment Author:Stephen Colbert
“I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry for all those inquisitions, crusades, and autos-da-fe. Previous popes were wrong - infallible, perhaps, but wrong.” TryingReligionChurchDecidedCatholicSorryJewNewspapersPopeCatholic ChurchInfallibleCrusadesInquisition Author:Alan Dershowitz
“When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.” IfsYoungNightGirlNextFatherChurchSinBoysWeekTaughtDecidedCatholicEveningImpure Thoughts Author:Fidel Castro