“Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.” PeopleProblemChurchReligiousGreaterDevelopmentTraditionCatholicRemarkableOpennessPersuasionDesirableCatholic ChurchReligious Traditions Author:Francis Arinze
“If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsUseProblemSeemsAsksPositionCatholicMajorityRateAbortionBishopsContraceptionBacklashPosition Of Power Author:Gloria Steinem
“It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.” KnowsMayProblemSeemsGovernmentTogetherGuyNextNationsDifferencesChurchOne DayCatholicInstitutionsUnionsStringsComing OutPullingLampsMafiaCatholic ChurchCiaMissilesIncompetence Author:Frank Zappa
“I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.” ThinkingWorldDifferentShowsProblemCoursesInternetCatholicTensionProtestantsBaghdadBelfast Author:Eboo Patel
“We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.” ProblemTodayChurchAttitudeGroupsCatholicChiefsCorporationsOperationsExecutivesOrthodoxBroadsSevereEasternCatholic ChurchProtestantsAnti SemitismChurch TodayChief ExecutivesOrthodox Church Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“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
“One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II, most of the European countries started to develop economically and socially, but whatever way the Catholic church they took a grip and they almost governed the country. I mean, we were almost like a dictatorship. There is good and bad, but we experienced an awful lot of bad, especially from the institutions that taught children the Christian brothers, etc.” WorldMeanChildrenWarCountryProblemChristianChurchEconomicBrotherCatholicWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IDictatorshipGood And Bad Author:Gavin Friday
“Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentReasonProblemMovingChurchPicksCatholicEasterKeep MovingCatholic Church Author:Denis Leary
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” PeopleBelieveRealProblemPainSufferingCatholicHumbleBe HumblePiousReal Problems Author:C. S. Lewis
“The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be? Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. Morrie Schwartz” PeopleIfsMenWorldWayLoveBelieveHumansLittlesDifferentEndsProblemBigsMightCareAgeCommunitySawsDyingLove YouThis WorldBirthMen And WomenCatholicDon't BelieveBelieve In MeProtestantsHuman FamilyThose You LoveMorrie Author:Mitch Albom
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.” IfsWorldSoulProblemBodySeriousMoralityConcernedImportanceHotCatholicNakedVersusConfrontingPistolsFree LoveHot Body Author:T. H. White
“I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or what? It just causes all sorts of problems. And what are the kids praying about anyway? Does it really matter, does praying in school...what are you doing it for? The whole thing just opens up all sorts of elements of discussion. I think it's crazy.” ThinkingBelieveDoeMatterWholeProblemKidsSchoolCausesPrayerTeacherCrazyPrayingElementsCatholicDon't BelieveDiscussionNonsenseEpiscopalians Author:Charles M. Schulz
“It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly religious people. The Jewish or Catholic faiths, for example, have their own rules. But just religious people, who will make very devoted parents, have no problem with in vitro fertilization.” PeopleProblemScienceParentReligiousTalkingExampleDependsEthicsCatholicEthicalDevotedNo ProblemStandpointDenominationsCatholic FaithFertilization Author:Patrick Steptoe
“Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.” WayProblemSocialCatholicGhostProtestantsConfrontingSocial ProblemsGrappling Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” WorldIdeasProblemTogetherCultureHousePoliticsBlackInterestWhiteMankindCatholicJewBlack And WhiteProtestantsWesternersGentiles Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.” IfsShouldWellsPersonsProblemChurchBrotherJudgingGayCatholicGood WillCatholic ChurchIntegratedOrientationMarginalizedCatechism Author:Pope Francis
“I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.” RealProblemChristChurchCatholicCatholic ChurchReal Problems Author:Andres Serrano
“To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all.” ProblemAbleJoyStandardsAll ThingsUniversalCatholic Author:Thomas Merton