“White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"” MenHandsAbleLastsSpiritualBlackFreedomWhiteCatholicAncientJewThank GodAlmightyWhite ManProtestantsHolding HandsGentiles Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.” ChildrenLastsReligiousJudgmentCatholicBusySaintMaryToo BusyVirgin MaryBlessed MotherImmaculate Author:John Vianney
“We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.” IfsMenMindStillsWould BeLastsRememberLyingSidesChristPowerfulWonderLordDangerBearsCatholicAriseFeaturesGood ManDeceivedLast DayBad ManBeing DeceivedAnti Christ Book:Devotion to the Church Source: Devotion to the Church
“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.” MenYearsSelfLastsDesireIndividualReturnHundredDown AndCatholicOneselfExtremesReactionsBrokeEmptinessCollectivesNeglectAffirmationParticipationEmbodimentRoman CatholicSelf Affirmation Author:Paul Tillich
“The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.” YearsWarRealEndsLastsNationsCausesReligiousStruggleFireInvolvedConflictEuropeCatholicSeriesAccomplishFranceThirtySoilRulersHostilityThirty YearsProtestantsCardinalsJesuitReligious WarsRichelieu Author:John Daniel
“Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.” PeopleWantLastsHateCoursesBlackPrejudiceCatholicCatholicismBlack PeopleHomosexualRespectable Author:Tom Clancy
“At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment.” HumorFunnyLastsThreeSexChurchCatholicWeekendApartmentCleaningFridayRequestCatholic ChurchRioRio De Janeiro Author:Tina Fey
“I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.” WayWellsLastsBoysNiceLateCatholicEducatedRespectfulVery NiceWell EducatedCatholic Family Author:Riccardo Tisci
“This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.” KnowsMomentsStoriesLastsParticularCatholicMiraculousMartyr Author:Black Francis
“I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.” YearsLastsCertainCommunityReligiousIssuesFocusMovementAmountCoupleAreasYears AgoCatholicEnvironmentalProtestantsEvangelicalJewish CommunityReligious Community Author:Bill McKibben
“Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been closed and claustrophobic for 35 years under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. I defy anyone who, over the last 35 years, has spent time on the campuses of Notre Dame or Georgetown, or who has read the National Catholic Reporter, or who has gone to a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, to make that claim without experiencing a twinge of conscience that says, "I should wash my mouth out with soap."” ShouldYearsStoriesLastsChurchReligiousLinesGoneConversationMouthsConscienceClaimsCatholicMeetingsDebateReportersPopeConferencesSoapCampusDamesJohn PaulNotre DameJohn Paul IiGeorgetownBenedict Xvi Author:George Weigel
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” MenChildrenStatesGodHandsHappensAbleLastsSpiritualBlackFreedomWhiteCitiesCatholicJewSpeedRingsVillageThank GodAlmightyWhite ManProtestantsFreedom LibertyPeace And JusticeI Had A DreamPeace JusticeGentilesI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechFreedom And PeaceMarch On WashingtonJoining Hands Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.” IfsMenNeedsFeelsLastsWifeMinutesMinesHundredStrongerCatholicMedicinePriestsSwingsSixtyEightyOwn BusinessDeathbedLast MinuteMethodists Book:True Grit Source: True Grit
“In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.” PeopleHas BeensEndsRealityChristianLastsReligionChurchSupportCenturyCatholicAtheistPunishmentTortureWitchcraftCatholic ChurchCondemningInquisitionChristian Church Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.” ThinkingTryingHardChristianLastsSinChristianityHellMeditationHorrorEternalDevilEternityCatholicSaintCommittedChristian InspirationalSavedCommitChosenMortalsFlamesSinnerMortal SinHell FireFranciscans Author:Benedict Joseph Labre
“During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”” YearsDoneLastsChurchArgumentCatholicCatholicismFrustratingMajestyCatholic ChurchCardinalsClergyAnecdotesEminenceRoman CatholicBonaparte Author:Ross Douthat
“The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.” IfsFirstsPersonsDoeHandsInspirationLastsFaithRealizingCatholicFamily Life Author:Adolph Kolping
“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
“If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God...let him be anathema.” IfsMindDoeHas BeensLastsFatherChurchHolyDown AndCatholicCatholicismPortionsApostolicAnathemaApostolic Church Author:Pope Martin I
“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” MenWellsRealGodChristianLastsOrderJesusPeaceChristLibertyChristianitySocietyKingsDisciplineBlessingHarmonyCatholicChristian InspirationalRecognizingPublic LifeFollowing JesusPeace And Harmony Author:Pope Pius XI
“Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace.” PeopleMenAbleLastsYoungHumanityCultureLanguageBrotherBecomingMembersCapableMen And WomenTasksAnd LoveCatholicDearLove LifeSolidarityBrothers And SistersExhilaratingPeace And LoveCraftsmanBecoming A Man Author:Pope John Paul II
“The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.” SeemsLastsChurchPowerfulMembersLowsSightCatholicMajorityDeeperPeterApostlesSuccessionExaltedHighs And LowsDoubtersExpired Author:Nicholas of Flue
“Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.” HeartLightEyeEarthLastsSpiritualJoyTurnsCatholicContemplationDistractionReposeSpiritual Joy Author:Albertus Magnus