“It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensSchoolGoneBeatsCatholicHelpfulGrammarNunGrammar School Author:Fran Lebowitz
“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
“There's a reason why very few people listen to Catholic radio, very few people watch Catholic TV. It's because there's no quality to it and so it's like, if you put quality there, if you're real broadcasters, you make it entertaining.” PeopleIfsRealReasonQualityWatchesTvsCatholicRadioReason WhyEntertainingBroadcasters Author:Lino Rulli
“I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.” PeopleWantedSchoolBeautifulGrowing UpSawsGrowingCatholicFantasticNunSuperstarSuperhumanCatholic School Author:Madonna Ciccone
“The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.” PeopleYearsLongFactsShowsSeemsFacesChurchDiseaseMassMurderCatholicManageHolocaustCatholic ChurchBishopsDegradationComplicityCrass Author:Terence McKenna
“According to an article on CNN.com, a new study says people who are bad kissers don't get laid. Where are you supposed to learn how to kiss? If you go to Catholic school, it's from your priest; in public school, you learn from your teacher; and some guys learn from their sisters... if their sister is Angelina Jolie.” PeopleIfsSchoolGuyStudyTeacherKissingCatholicPriestsArticlesPublic SchoolCnnGetting LaidCatholic School Author:Chelsea Handler
“Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.” PeopleIfsMenFactsChristianSpiritualReligiousCatholicProfoundPopeReligious FaithJohn PaulPope John PaulSpiritual FaithProfound Spiritual Author:Chris Matthews
“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsTodayAmericaDifficultMiddleCenturyMovementJudgingStandardsYears AgoCatholicRejectedProtestants19th Century Author:Steve King
“Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.” PeopleTwoDifferentProblemTogetherMovingCertainCultureLandMy FamilyDecidedCatholicIntentionHolidayContinentsProtestantsPilgrimDifferent CulturesBest Intentions Author:Christopher Titus
“I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.” PeopleThinkingReligionNegativeCatholicAgreeRaisedAtheistOptimisticAfterlifeRejectedThere Is No GodOutspoken Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.” PeopleLightFatherHolyHatredMercyAbuseCatholicDividedReconciliationPersecutedAbuse Of PowerBeaconsBeacons Of Light Author:William J. Clinton
“Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.” PeopleWantMeanLittlesDifferentKidsAgeSchoolLike YouCatholicGreat ThingsValleysElementary SchoolCatholic SchoolClosed Minded Author:Katy Rose
“I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.” PeopleFeelsChurchBrotherCatholicBridgesOrthodoxBrothers And SistersCatholic ChurchOrthodox Church Author:Rick Warren
“I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsHas BeensChurchCatholicJewAll The BestHonorary Author:Nathan Lane
“It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.” PeopleKindEndsChristianNamesSidesStreetsHundredIndiaBasesCatholicAll KindsCelebrateRitualBizarreFestivalsProtestants Author:Anita Rau Badami
“I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.” PeopleMemoriesCatholicNeighborhoodMarchChicagoVividPolishEthnicityParishVivid MemoriesLithuanians Author:Sara Paretsky
“While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.” PeopleLittlesMadeSidesChurchFireSawsWalkingCatholicSouthWoodsParksTruckCarpetCatholic Church Author:Sara Paretsky
“So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.” PeopleStatesAbleWinningUnitedCasesUnited StatesCatholicElectionWestAlsVirginiaProtestantsWest Virginia Author:Geoffrey Cowan
“One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.” PeopleReasonTodayCatholicGermanyRegionsProtestants Author:Susan Jacoby
“People that support Donald Trump are gonna circle the wagons around Trump even more so after this. This isn't gonna cause Catholics or other Christians to say, "Oh, my God, the pope, oh, no, pope says Trump's not a Christian. I gotta abandon Trump." No. It isn't gonna happen that way, I don't believe.” PeopleWayBelieveHappensChristianCausesSupportTrumpCatholicDon't BelieveCirclesAbandonPopeWagons Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.” PeopleKnowsPurposeChurchInfluenceHolyCatholicFoundationRaisedSundayGoing To ChurchHoly Days Author:Craig Finn
“I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.” PeopleWantLittlesBeautifulCultureRaceIdentityBabyCatholicChineseBrownBowsPaleI'm Sad Author:Muhammad Ali
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingBelieveWellsPurposeChurchOpinionCatholicCourtArguingAbortionAcceptablePublic OpinionCatholic ChurchAgainst Abortion Author:Andrew Solomon
“I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.” PeopleDifferentGrewGrew UpCatholicAtheistAgnosticMidwestDifferent FaithsCatholic Family Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I am a Catholic. I can't say that without pointing out that I oppose abortion with all my heart and soul. Bill Clinton wanted them safe and rare. Barack Obama is heartsick that so many people he knows have had abortions. But we're all pro-choice and believe in reproductive freedom and oppose the Republicans' War on Women.” PeopleKnowsBelieveHeartI CanWarSoulWantedChoicesMy HeartRepublicanSafeCatholicBillsClintonBarackAbortionPointingHeart And Soul Author:Joe Biden
“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
“I think people who are horrifically abused as children and then start to repeat the same thing to their own offspring or to others, you start to see evil inherent. That's what the Catholic Church feels is necessary to exorcise, to cleanse.” PeopleThinkingFeelsChildrenEvilChurchCatholicRepeatsInherentCatholic ChurchOffspring Author:Rupert Wyatt
“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
“I live near Amish communities in northern Indiana and I have the greatest respect for such faithful people. They attempt to live their faith more fully by separating themselves, as far as possible, from the wider culture and its influences. That has never been the teaching of the Catholic faith.” PeopleCultureCommunityInfluenceTeachingCatholicFaithfulIndianaSeparatingAmishCatholic Faith Author:John I. Jenkins
“I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.” PeopleUsedCatholicConstraintsProtestants Author:Pierre Trudeau
“My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'” PeopleWantBelieveSaidTwoEnoughStoriesHandsChurchAudienceTroubleMembersResearchCatholicMy FavoriteAbortionConferencesSessionDelightedCatholic ChurchPro LifeInappropriateMicrophonesTorontoUnwantedContraceptionTrue Faith Author:Nat Hentoff
“The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.” PeopleThinkingMenBelieveWellsTogetherRevolutionCatholicDon't BelieveVery GoodCombinationWorking TogetherCubaMarxistCastro Author:Dorothy Day
“I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.” PeopleKnowsTryingBornCatholicSomedayIrelandGrandfather Author:Mike Pence
“The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways of protecting societies from dangerous people without killing them. And in fact, it's important to remember that much of the world has done away with the death penalty.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensImportantCountryDoneFactsRememberUnderstandingDangerousCatholicKillingPenaltiesDeath PenaltyOutdated Author:Shane Claiborne
“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.” PeopleYearsStillsLightTodaySchoolUsedFeltSidesBlackWhiteAliveWorstPrejudicePressureCatholicWho You AreExcuseBlack PeopleLive For TodayExcuse MeElementary SchoolRacial PrejudiceCatholic SchoolWorst Times Author:Kevin michael
“[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.” PeopleSpeakChurchSonDifficultyCatholicDoctrineOrthodoxRomeCommunionPopeBishopsGood SenseClosenessDogmatic Author:Pope Francis
“The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.” PeopleBehindsTypeCatholicCurvesMaintenance Author:George Weigel
“The "encounter" with the people on the peripheries is intended to draw them into the circle of common care and concern - that call to encounter is, to use a favorite world of John Paul II's, a call to solidarity. And that means, it seems to me, aggressive Catholic efforts to empower the poor - and a profound Catholic challenge to all those cultural forces that are eroding stable families, which are the elementary schools where we learn to take responsibility for our lives, which is the highest exercise of freedom.” PeopleWorldMeanUseSeemsCareSchoolForceChallengesPoorCommonEffortResponsibilityOur LivesExerciseHighestDrawsConcernCatholicProfoundCirclesEncountersEmpoweringAggressiveStableSolidarityTaking ResponsibilityElementary SchoolJohn PaulPeripheryJohn Paul IiCare And Concern Author:George Weigel
“We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?” PeopleIfsWorldActionChristianTurnsRegardCatholicDoctrineAggressiveVillainCheeksDroppingDronesTurn The Other CheekChristian Doctrine Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.” PeopleWorldWellsFactsHappensOrderEvilHeavenGraceCircumstancesGainsAccountsCatholicTheologyMechanismDo The Best Author:Roger Ebert
“So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant, I was never baptized and had never been a member of any church. I joined the Roman Catholic Church after I had written my Mass To Hope!During the night I dreamt the entire Lord's Prayer with chorus and orchestra. I jumped out of bed and wrote down what I had heard as accurately as I could remember. Because of this event I decided that I might as well join the Catholic Church because someone somewhere was pulling me toward that end.” PeopleRememberNightChurchPrayerCatholicChorusBaptizedRoman Catholic Author:Dave Brubeck
“It may very well be that people in San Francisco don't think we have any culture in Nebraska, but we have a different culture, and it's a very deep culture. We have these Czech immigrants, who are making this marvelous ethnic food and their Catholic lives and it's very fascinating stuff.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCultureCatholicVery DeepDifferent Cultures Author:Ted Kooser
“Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative ideas of Confessionalism, beyond psychoanalysis, is a very actual fall from grace. And, at least in America, people of color never occupy that position of grace the way that white people do. So I think that in some very actual ways the confessional mode, strictly speaking, is not possible for non-white writers.” PeopleThinkingFallGraceCatholicPoetry IsPsychoanalysis Author:Shane McCrae
“I am Christian from when I was little. Because of the politics in Spain, everybody must be Christian by law. But I'm not a real big believer. I believe in people. I believe in life. But not especially in Catholics or priests or whatever.” PeopleBelieveRealChristianI BelieveCatholicBeliever Author:Jesus Franco
“My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.” PeopleDifferentChristianMusic IsCatholicBuddhist Author:Jeremy Enigk
“I'll never forget what a Catholic priest told me; he said, "If you try to padlock the door, you have to give people an alternative path - an alternative, safer path. You can't padlock, and you shouldn't padlock a burning building."” PeopleGivingTryingForgetPathBuildingCatholicNever Forget Author:Jeh Johnson
“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'd been to Saint Petersburg before, but there's been a change in people's minds. Maybe it's a fashionable thing, but people have returned to the churches. I went to a Russian Orthodox and a Catholic church - both of the queues, enormous!” PeopleMindChurchCatholicSaintOrthodoxFashionable Author:Manolo Blahnik