“I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.” ChristianNightChurchReligiousViewsChristianityWifePrayingRegardCatholicDinnerMy WifeEvery Night Author:Nicholas Sparks
“After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.” FirstsHumansHalfCenturyEvolutionRegardCatholicConstantDoctrineOppressionThinkerDreadPersecutionVeilsPromotingFormationTheologicalProtestantsRogerSolar SystemHuman ThoughtGreat Thinkers Author:Andrew Dickson White
“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
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.” PeopleIfsFeelsChristianPassionChristSinShareAnxietyRegardCatholicGuiltyAfflictionDefectsPassion Of The Christ Book:Joyful Christian Source: Joyful Christian
“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
“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.” IfsReasonNaturalChurchPowerfulExistencePowerImpossibleDutyRegardCatholicCatholicismDogmaExistence Of GodRoman Catholic Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.” TwoMatterReligionThreeBeliefChurchReligiousCenturyProductsPressureRegardCatholicReformWitchDeclineSkepticismFoundersCatholic ChurchDisbeliefProtestants Author:S. T. Joshi
“While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” MayStillsWarChurchOpinionArmsExerciseAuthorityDiversityMercyRegardCatholicCriminalsPunishmentAbortionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyDiscretionImposingEuthanasiaCapital PunishmentRecourseAggressorsPeace Not WarWaging War Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.” WayShouldLordMassRegardCatholicIntentionTraditionalCuriousReformRepeatsRelaxRemoveProtestantsSupperLiturgyLord's Supper Author:Jean Guitton
“Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.” PeopleUseAbleTechnologyModernUltimateRegardCatholicChosenConfusionModern LifeEuthanasiaAmbivalenceProlongingUltimate Freedom Author:Pope John Paul II
“Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .” MenHas BeensEndsChristianAnimalAttitudeChristianityRegardCatholicMereViolentBuddhistVegetarianUnfortunateEasternJudaismRemarksGenesisInsensitiveMoralist Author:Aldous Huxley