“Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.” CareTodayChurchCatholicYesterdayDoctrineI CareVisitorsShakers Author:Maria Mitchell
“After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.” FirstsHumansHalfCenturyEvolutionRegardCatholicConstantDoctrineOppressionThinkerDreadPersecutionVeilsPromotingFormationTheologicalProtestantsRogerSolar SystemHuman ThoughtGreat Thinkers Author:Andrew Dickson White
“An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.” EffortEffectsCatholicStormDoctrineDeclarationRidiculeDissentBansInfallibleContraceptionInfallibility Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.” WellsSoundChurchCatholicFundamentalsErrorsSignificantDoctrineOrthodoxCouncilLutherCatholic ChurchRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Norman Geisler
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.” IfsFactsChristianTermChurchReligiousExpressionHarmonyCatholicRemainsHistoricalSocialismDoctrineContradictionDogmaCatholic ChurchImplyingHistorical Facts Author:Pope Pius XI
“Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.” MenHas BeensStatesAbleReligiousViewsNumbersGenerationsIntellectualCatholicDoctrineOld ManSensibleAbsurdityAlasSeemingInfancyCredibleReactionariesInsufficientContraception Book:Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness Source: Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness
“Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The powers of both were often combined. As a result, churches frequently used the force of the state to promote and enforce their interests and doctrines. This caused horrendous atrocities against Jews and heretics, as well as the European religious wars between Catholics and Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.” PeopleWellsWarStatesGovernmentUsedLeftForceDifficultInterestChurchReligiousResultsMillionsCenturyCatholicDetermineJewDoctrineProtestantsAtrocitiesHereticReligious Wars Author:Jayne Meadows
“In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.” MenChildrenStatesHelpingTurnsSexChurchCoupleCatholicUnionsDiscriminationObligationDoctrineDefinedAgencyIllegalAdoptionSacramentsTornCatholic ChurchOrphan Author:Tom Gjelten
“[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.” PeopleSpeakChurchSonDifficultyCatholicDoctrineOrthodoxRomeCommunionPopeBishopsGood SenseClosenessDogmatic Author:Pope Francis
“We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?” PeopleIfsWorldActionChristianTurnsRegardCatholicDoctrineAggressiveVillainCheeksDroppingDronesTurn The Other CheekChristian Doctrine Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.” PeopleIfsLoveHeartMayImportantBookAgeLastsFilmImaginationSinNovelGraceMoralityDespairCatholicAlbumsDoctrineContemporaryRedemptionSymbolsSpokesConcertsDogmaPopePropositionsTheologianImageryTunnelsWoodyWhirlwindSpringsteenFilm And MusicWoody Allen Film Author:Brennan Manning
“Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.” SoulCharacterBodyChristianCertainOrderChristChurchTeachClearSonEternalGainsCatholicSalvationErrorsBoundsDoctrineReasonableBelongingFormulasMeaninglessMysticalDeceivedCredibilityZealCatholic ChurchChristian FaithBelittleBody Of ChristRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Pope Pius XII
“I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.” FatherBeliefAcceptingCatholicSalvationDoctrineOrthodoxInterpretationSincereCatholicismApostles Author:Pope Pius X
“For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.” PeopleIfsLittlesWholeCharacterBodyChurchReligiousDoubtSacrificeExampleResearchCatholicBlindStructureConstantSpreadDoctrineUncertaintyCatholicismDogmaCatholic ChurchUnwillingCorrectnessSyllablesBlind FaithCollisionEdificeMein KampfExact SciencesUncertainty And Doubt Author:Adolf Hitler
“I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus.” MeanChristianJesusLinesCatholicFundamentalsBelieverDoctrineTitlesRejectsOrthodoxTestamentNew TestamentEvangelicalFundamentalistCharismaticJesus LoveDenominations Author:Bill Bright
“Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.” ChristChurchChangedProtectCatholicDoctrineCatholic ChurchPassing Away Author:Pope Pius IX
“Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.” MenWorldShouldYearsEndsChristianVoiceKnownBoysTeachHeardEarsCatholicDoctrineThis DayOld ManPeterIntroducingSparesApostles Author:St. Jerome
“New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.” Has BeensMatterFatherChurchMoralCatholicCarefulDoctrineRevelationsRejectsSovereignCouncilNovelty Author:Alphonsus Liguori
“They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.” WorldGovernmentChurchCatholicDoctrineOver ItCatholic ChurchWorld GovernmentTake ControlOne World GovernmentWorld Religions Author:Hutton Gibson