“Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.” PersonsPoliticalReligiousAuthorityCatholicSuspectsPatrioticLoyalPopeAllegianceBattlefieldsObjectionsEmancipationBritish History Author:Linda Colley
“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.” WellsChildrenStillsSelfStatesBodyRealityPoliticalChoicesChurchUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleIgnoranceDeterminationCatholicMalesIncludingProfessionMedicalLifestyleAlternativesAbortionDependentMiddle ClassSelf DeterminationDisguiseCatholic ChurchLegislatorsPhysicalityPharmaceuticalVeneerJurists Author:Adrienne Rich
“Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.” CharacterHumorSchoolPoliticalVirtuePathTeachingStudentsBuildingCatholicMissionsWord Of GodServing GodPolitical HumorCatholic School Author:George W. Bush
“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.” ShouldCountryStatesLawPoliticalEnergyFeltCausesChurchLibertyPrinciplesLimitsElementsConstitutionCatholicAffairScaryActiveAdministrationFixedLegislationPenetrateVigilanceUsagePolitical Life Author:Pope Leo XIII
“Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners.” PoliticalFatherChurchWhiteStreetsSonCallingHusbandMassBeatsCatholicReleaseAgentsJailPrisonerInstructionCatholic ChurchIntimidatingCubanFather And SonPolitical Prisoners Author:Marco Rubio
“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.” PeopleMeanCountryWholeGovernmentPastPoliticalEvilNamesMemoriesCommonBreakFailingSourceRepublicanConnectionsEnglandCatholicIndependenceTyrannyObjectivesSubstitutesIrelandProtestantsAbolishDenominationsIrishmenDissension Book:Freedom the Wolfe Tone way Source: Freedom the Wolfe Tone way
“The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.” ThinkingWellsLongI CanDifferentCountryPoliticalChurchPrinciplesClearFailingCenturyPositionDevelopmentCatholicStructureRussiaSuitsGermanyHierarchyMonarchyCatholic ChurchDifferent Countries Author:Hermann Goring
“What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world.” WorldWayTryingGovernmentPoliticalChallengesChurchReligiousPiecesCenturyCatholicIslamArguingIdeologySymbolsPropagandaIranCatholic ChurchReformationProtestantsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisTheocracy17th CenturyProtestant Reformation Author:Asra Nomani
“What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question.” WayPoliticalChristLeaderCatholicPopePolitical SystemsCatholic FaithVicarsAmerican Political System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.” HappensPoliticalPoliticsPresidentPartyCatholicDemocraticCandidatesDemocratic PartyHymns Author:John F. Kennedy
“Protestants and Catholics have historically disagreed on the canon of the Old Testament but agreed on the canon of the New Testament. Christians throughout history have at times been imprisoned and even martyred for keeping books of the Bible or whole Bibles when told to surrender them to political authorities.” BookChristianPoliticalAuthorityCatholicSurrenderNew TestamentOld Testament Author:Craig Blomberg
“The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.” TruthPoliticalOpinionHonestIntelligentCatholicAssumingOpponentsCommunist Author:George Orwell
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.” PeopleMenShouldBelieveStatesGovernmentMightSchoolAmericaPoliticalPoliticsI BelievePresidentChurchOfficeVoteAbsolutesCatholicI Believe InSeparationCivil RightsGrantedMinistersFundDeniedPreferenceChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestantsSeparation Between Church And StatePublic OfficeCatholic Religion Author:John F. Kennedy
“Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?” TryingStatesGovernmentPoliticalUnitedPowerfulLibertyUnited StatesEconomicInformationEconomicsCatholicJewExperimentsTyrannyLocalsObjectivesAgencyDestroyingTyrantsFederal GovernmentPolitical PowerExterminationJurisdictionOver 50Government AgenciesPowerful Government Author:Walter E. Williams
“I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.” PeopleCountryWholePoliticalFightingSocialCommunityPracticeDangerousPlanetsSeriousBirthActivityOrganizationCatholicThreatVariousObstaclesPositive AtheismConvincedGravesCatholicismOrganizeBirth ControlDetrimentalOverpopulation Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.” WorldMeanDoeSchoolPoliticalLyingSocialEffortCatholicEverydayFlightHolinessEveryday LifeInvolvementPolitical Involvement Author:Pope John Paul II
“Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed” BelievePoliticalChurchCatholicCatholicismIrelandCrushedCatholic ChurchPolitical Power Author:Oliver Cromwell
“For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.” ThinkingWorldLittlesPoliticalUnitedHistorySeaSecurityCreationDivineReadyEnglandCatholicLaysThreatBritishIslandsConspiracyProvidenceCouncilProtestantsStand AloneBritish HistoryInvadersIsleDivine ProvidencePolitical Thinking Author:Susan Brigden
“Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.” LawPoliticalTermDealsPositionDiversityCatholicCourtWideSupremeNineCatholicismSupreme CourtTents Author:Cass Sunstein