“I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.” KnowsHeartMotherGivenChristWonderfulExampleCatholicGenuineGod LoveTeresa Author:Bill McCartney
“The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.” MenReasonChristChurchPracticePlansTeachingExampleAuthorityCatholicFundamentalsSacredConstantScriptureConsistentlyApostlesCatholic ChurchExclusionPriesthoodGod's PlanSacred Scripture Author:Pope Paul VI
“For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.” WorldShouldSaidStatesRememberUnitedUnited StatesExampleCatholicIraqRememberedIllegalPopeImmoralJohn PaulJohn Paul Ii Author:Hugo Chavez
“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.” WayLongLawAbilityWhitePoorGroupsExampleCitizensLong TimeConcernedCatholicJewVariousTrialsImmigrantsHistorianTomsArrivalsPrecedentWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.” ThinkingFirstsDoeEndsTodayChurchMy OwnHalfMoralExampleCatholicProgressiveCatholic ChurchWagons Author:Richard Rohr
“The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants while vastly expanding the German Church's bureaucracies.” ReasonWholeSeemsForceChurchExampleTypeApproachDeterminationCatholicPrimariesBureaucracyBizarreExpandingScratchesSeemingMaintenanceInversions Author:George Weigel
“One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.” ThinkingTogetherNumbersMeditationGrowingEffectsExampleBuddhismYogaCatholicTechniqueHinduismBorrowedBorrowing Author:Ninian Smart
“I've often admired the way many Catholics who have left the priesthood, for example, have nevertheless remained sincere Catholics. They voted with their feet.” WayLeftFeetExampleCatholicSincereNeverthelessPriesthood Author:Ninian Smart
“It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly religious people. The Jewish or Catholic faiths, for example, have their own rules. But just religious people, who will make very devoted parents, have no problem with in vitro fertilization.” PeopleProblemScienceParentReligiousTalkingExampleDependsEthicsCatholicEthicalDevotedNo ProblemStandpointDenominationsCatholic FaithFertilization Author:Patrick Steptoe
“Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.” MenChildrenDoeReasonAgeChurchExampleMembersBenefitsFlowCatholicSalvationUnityFruitProfitProfessionCeaseReachingReceivingFormalCommunionSacramentsCatholic ChurchHeresyBaptismHereticBaptizedAge Of ReasonBaptized In Author:Saint Augustine
“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
“Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.” SpiritChurchExampleJudgingCatholicLive ByCatholicismClosestCatholic Church Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.” KindMeanTwoMotherFatherBornViewsExampleBandMembersTraditionEnglandCatholicUnityRaisedIrelandProtestantsNorthern Ireland Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.” YearsMayHas BeensWholeTodayReligiousExampleTomorrowCatholicVictimFingersJewSomedayBe YouPreacherSuspicionFabricPerilHarmoniousVirginiaBaptistsReligious FreedomRippedHarassmentSeparation Between Church And StateStatutesQuakerUnitarian Author:John F. Kennedy
“When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.” PeopleTryingMeanMadeReasonNamesForceChurchSituationExampleIdentityPositionStandardsNegativeCatholicDiscriminationLiberationAbstractSoleHomosexualityCatholic ChurchOrdination Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.” HumansIdeasExampleCatholicAcceptedHuman LifeAbortionMistakenElimination Author:Pope John Paul II
“Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!” HumansPersonsOrderRiskExampleObjectsCatholicMereAbortionLife And DeathReducingEuthanasiaCloningHuman Cloning Author:Pope John Paul II
“Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.” ShouldSometimesPhilosophyExampleUniversalCatholicConformityRomeTheologianReducingCatholic Faith Author:Godfried Danneels