“I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.” FatherSonCatholicBlueTradeUnionsDemocratKnightsCollarsColumbusOrganizerWelshWoolBlue CollarTrade Unions Author:Bob Gunton
“We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.” KnowsHas BeensStoriesGovernmentCenturyRepublicanDemandCatholicDemocratMartyr Author:Charles J. Chaput
“This is not even Bill Clinton's Democrat Party, anymore. This party, the Democrat Party of today, is so off the rails and so radical that Christians and Catholics are leaving the Democrat Party.” TodayChristianPartyCatholicBillsClintonDemocratLeavingRadicalRail Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.” ThinkingKindPresidentLeaderCatholicDemocratMy WayHispanic Author:Martin Sheen
“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.” PeopleMenWorldPersonsBlackDifferencesWhiteIssuesSawsRepublicanMen And WomenCatholicDemocratSignificantDividedWhite ManProtestantsNineteenPureness Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.” FirstsLastsLeftSocialCatholicTradeDemocratJewThought ProvokingCommunistProvokingArrested Author:Martin Niemoller
“Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.” DifferentChurchPositionProveCatholicDemocratAbortion Author:James Carville