“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.” MeanDoeInterestInterestingChristianityGreaterMysteryCatholicCeaseCertaintyUncertainty Book:A Hopkins reader: selections Source: A Hopkins reader: selections
“The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.” ReasonWholeFactsBodyEvilInterestChurchOpinionRootsCatholicLaysGermanyHostileNationalityCatholic Church Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“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
“Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.” WaySelfChristianFeltInterestChurchViewsCitiesOughtCatholicFinancialSelf InterestBaltimoreGood ChristianUnorthodox Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.” ThinkingSaidSchoolInterestSunSawsHigh SchoolDown AndCatholicRevengePrintThis DayDiscouragedThink Of YouBaltimore Author:John Waters
“This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” WorldIdeasProblemTogetherCultureHousePoliticsBlackInterestWhiteMankindCatholicJewBlack And WhiteProtestantsWesternersGentiles Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….” DoeInterestChristResponsibilityCatholicInvitesExclusionInterest In Others Author:Pope John Paul II
“Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.” EyeJesusInterestClearRightsAmbitionCatholicPrivilege Author:Mother Teresa
“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.” FeelsInterestChurchMoralPathSpecialIntellectualPraiseCatholicAffectionCampaignsPersistenceAdmirationCatholic ChurchDespisedSpecial InterestsSuppressingMoral Freedom Author:Albert Einstein
“My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.” FilmInterestFictionWatchesHorrorCatholicScience Fiction Author:James Dyson