“When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.” ThinkingTryingLongWholeMomentsLife IsGivenGrowsChurchPrayerVirtueParticularPeriodsCatholicDeeperWhole LifeSundayMatureCatholicismIntensityConventionsSacramentsGiven UpCatholic ChurchRelationship With GodEarly 20s Author:Kevin Hart
“We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.” TwoHumanityParticularCreaturesElementsCatholicFaculty Book:The Annotated Emerson Source: The Annotated Emerson
“A move of the Spirit of God is coming to the Catholic Church. The youth in particular will be ignited with a fresh fire of zeal and passion for Christ and His Gospel. A radical company of Believers will arise in the Catholic Church during this move, and they will release a flow of God's love and truth into the nations.” MovingSpiritPassionNationsChristChurchCompanyFireYouthParticularFlowCatholicBelieverAriseReleaseRadicalZealCatholic ChurchGod's LoveSpirit Of GodTruth And Love Author:Patricia King
“For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.” ThinkingHelpingChurchSinOne ThingParticularCatholicPriestsRitualRoutineConfessionCatholic ChurchAbsolution Author:Susan Jacoby
“You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call a charismatic worship style, that means upbeat music and a more lively style of preaching usually, people are allowed to clap, say "Amen," whether they're mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and Catholics, whatever, they're much more likely to be integrated.” PeopleIfsMeanStyleParticularWorshipCatholicConservativePreachingLivelyIntegratedProtestantsAmenCharismaticDenominationsUpbeat Author:Michael Emerson
“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
“My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.” PeopleKnowsMadeTalkingNiceParticularCatholicEducatedPriestsAncestorFreethinker Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.” BodySchoolConsciousnessGrowing UpGrowingTaughtParticularPeriodsFemaleCatholicSensitiveVisibleMissionarySiteAsiaNunRepressedFemale BodyTime Periods Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments.” MightChurchCasesParticularCatholicAccessFaithfulSacramentsDivorcedCatholic ChurchFootnotes Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to every individual - communist or Catholic, Jaina or Jew, it does not matter. I am not talking about any particular conditioning that is wrong; I am saying conditioning AS SUCH is wrong.” MindMeanDoeMatterStatesIndividualProcessTalkingMeditationSocietyParticularGoes OnCatholicJewHarmCommunistConditioningNot TalkingUndoing Author:Rajneesh
“I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.” ThinkingWantMindWellsMeanDoeCareJobsAtheismParticularDiseaseCatholicGood ThingsI CareTerrificVirusesMemesRoman CatholicSmallpoxEpidemiologyCatholic Religion Author:Richard Dawkins
“There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.” WellsDoeEasyIssuesParticularDeterminationCatholicRaisesDefinedConformityTheologianProceduresCatholic Faith Author:Godfried Danneels