“I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.” ThinkingGivingTermMoralAspectCatholicFundamentalsRaisedGladCodeGroundingMoral Code Author:Frances O'Connor
“There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.” SocialMoralCatholicSpeciesModernismTheological Author:Pope Pius XI
“Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.” ChurchMoralCatholicSupremeCatholic ChurchKitschWarhol Author:Allen Ginsberg
“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.” PeopleStarsDarkMoralEnemyCatholicSuicideAtheistClarityLandscapeRisingImmigrantsSpeakersBombingLegionTerminalLynchingBritsDisgruntledDark Skinned Book:Spin Source: Spin
“We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy." We just laugh it off.” GuyDifferencesChurchMoralLaughingShareCrazyCatholicAgreeGuidelines Author:Larry Wilmore
“Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensSpiritualLevelsMoralTransformationCatholicAssumingCuriosityDisappointmentPriestsSpiritual TransformationMethodistsLutherans Author:Richard Rohr
“Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.” IfsChurchMoralBoysBirthAuthorityCatholicAltarsCatholic ChurchBirth ControlContraceptionMoral AuthorityUterus Author:Dana Gould
“I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.” JesusMoralTeachingCatholicFellowsMovedRaisedDogmaExclusivity Author:Tom Shadyac
“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.” HumansDoeDifferentChurchViewsMoralPositionTraditionCatholicHuman LifeCatholic ChurchMandatesEmbryosPersonhoodDevelopmentalJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“I am far more concerned about policies of the Democratic administration and Democratic Party that infringe on the rights of religious institutions and practices and open the door for using taxpayer dollars for abortions, to which many Americans have profound moral objections. Those are steps that would show a lack of respect for Catholics and their institutions.” ShowsReligiousPartyMoralStepsPracticeRightsDoorsPolicyConcernedCatholicInstitutionsDollarsDemocraticProfoundAdministrationAbortionDemocratic PartyTaxpayersObjectionsLack Of Respect Author:John I. Jenkins
“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
“What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom gave me my moral code which, even if I was bad, I wasn't bad for very long. If you're born and raised Catholic, it stays with you a lifetime. It's a good thing to have. My dad gave me a very professional attitude to the music business, and for that I thank them 100%.” IfsLongMotherFatherBornReligiousAttitudeMoralMomDadMusicianCatholicGood ThingsLifetimeRaisedMy DadMy MomCodeUpbringingMusic BusinessBorn And RaisedMoral Code Author:Suzi Quatro
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.” YearsCountryTermCommunityChurchMy OwnMoralChristianityRolesClearGenerationsBuildingBenefitsCatholicMovedImmigrantsExcessSecularCatholic ChurchCritiqueAmerican LifePropheticBuilding Community Author:Ross Douthat
“The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?" - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.” MenTryingMatterMoralTeachingJudgingCircumstancesCatholicResponseEndureNarrativePhrasesPopeSignatures Author:George Weigel
“I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to say: Our complete agenda is to be enacted into laws governing the entire society. Many different religious groups claim that authority, not only Catholics. A lot of different Protestant groups as well are stepping forward to say: Here is our agenda, it is a moral agenda, ergo it must be enacted into law. I think that the distinction between natural law and more ultimate kinds of doctrine is being lost.” ThinkingKindDifferentNaturalReligiousForgetMoralAuthorityUltimateCatholicUnfortunateNatural Law Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.” SchoolStrongPresidentChurchMoralBoysConscienceTraditionCatholicCatholicismVery StrongCatholic School Author:Bruce Babbitt
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” MayWarMoralOpinionIssuesDiversityWeightRegardCatholicAbortionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyEuthanasiaMoral IssuesWaging War Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty” FeelsTodaySpiritualChurchLibertyMoralStruggleCatholicAdmirationCatholic ChurchSpiritual Truth Author:Albert Einstein
“The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.” WorldIdeasAgeChristMoralTasksCatholicJewSatisfiedRuinsIndifferenceProvokingProtestantsRabbi Author:Bernard Lazare
“The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.” IfsMeanChildrenEndsGivenNaturalChurchMoralPrinciplesTechnologyAchieveDesignCatholicEmbraceCatholicismAcceptableMoral PrinciplesPraiseworthy Author:Christopher West
“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.” IfsGivingBelieveWould BeBeliefI BelieveMoralCatholicChiefsCharacteristicsShockedDisturbedArdentAdmirer Author:Flannery O'Connor
“I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.” WantGivingMoralDeserveCatholicRelativismSpankingAbsolutismMoral Relativism Author:Peter Kreeft
“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
“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