“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
“My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.” SpiritualLife IsSpiritualityInterestingCatholicRaisedSpiritual LifeBeltsInteresting ThingsBaptistsPrivate Things Author:Kelli O'Hara
“It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.” BeautifulFilmEnjoySidesDarkInterestingPeriodsHorrorOptimismCatholicNotesItalianSixtyPhenomenalSymbolismHorror FilmCarnivalsBaroque Author:Barbara Steele
“Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.” PeopleYearsInterestingClassMediaLike YouCatholicBoringOld PeopleNun Author:Lino Rulli
“They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.” ThinkingKnowsMayHas BeensCharacterSchoolAnswersInterestingTeacherBeatsEthicsCatholicEducatedWork EthicCatholic School Author:William Mapother
“My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.” FirstsSpeakLanguageParentInterestingGenerationsCatholicRaisedDareActiveErasInteriorsBrooklynSpeaks Out Author:Alice McDermott
“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
“The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was taught that the greatest sin was heresy. Because not only are you a sinner, you are proselytizing and inviting other people into your sinful state through your heresy. You're a recruiter for your own fallen state. Donald Trump is a heretic against reality. Basically, he's lying for sport. He's inviting people into his heresy that there is no objective reality.” PeopleRealityLyingSportsSinInterestingCatholicFakeFallenSinnerHeresyHeretic Author:Stephen Colbert
“I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.” MenBigsNamesInterestingSonIntellectualHollywoodCatholicUglyProducersGreekTallRuinedBell Jar Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.” IfsChristianReligionInterestingBehindsInfluenceThirdsCatholicAtheistDividesContrastBaptistsDenominations Author:Richard Dawkins