“Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.” PeopleWellsBeliefChurchReligiousCatholicRitualAttackingCatholic ChurchReligious BeliefFormality Author:Tom Lehrer
“I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what it can do, has been conditioned by my immersion in Catholic culture, ritual, and art since my earliest days. Catholicism seeped into me through every pore. Catholicism is about seeping and pores!” Has BeensArtWholeCultureCan DoCatholicNotionSymbolsCatholicismRitualImmersion Author:Joyelle McSweeney
“Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.” ImportantHolyEatingCatholicYeahMeatHolidayRitualBakingUkrainianEating MeatHoly Days Author:Vera Farmiga
“For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.” KindChildrenMadeRealMightTogetherAmericaStrongNationsFeltChurchCommonClassMillionsConcernRootsBaseballCatholicBoundsLoyaltyEnthusiasmRegionsRitualInchesSecularHierarchyAntagonism Author:Philip Roth
“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
“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
“I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't actually be uttered directly but really had to be reached through ritual. You come out of those Masses so moved, and you're like, "Why did that happen?" And the truth of it is that it happened through an hour of highly enacted ritual.” IdeasHappensHoursHappenedDramaMassTheaterCatholicMovedRaisedRitual Author:George Saunders
“As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.” LooksChildrenHas BeensArtCatholicObsessedRitualRenaissanceRenaissance Art Author:Nan Goldin
“I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?” ChurchCatholicRitualTheatrical Author:Chuck Panozzo
“Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.” DesireSpaceSecretFansCatholicSacredPopsDevotionRitualAgonyCeremonySplendidIconsSacred SpaceSecret Desire Book:Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.” BelieveMayUniversePassionReligiousPowerfulBehindsEmptyCatholicAgentsBuddhistSubstanceVisualsAweRitualProvocativeIncenseBereftReligious Rituals Author:David Bowie
“The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.” MatterBeliefParentChurchReligiousCatholicRitualDogmaCatholic ChurchParts Of LifeRoman CatholicRoman Catholic ChurchReligious Dogma Author:Colm Toibin
“I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presided over the domain of food and feeding for thousands of years, were historically and routinely barred from presiding over it in a spiritual context. And when the priest held out the host and said, "This is my body, given for you," not once did I recognize that it is women in the act of breastfeeding who most truly embody those words and who are also most excluded from ritually saying them.” YearsSaidBodySpiritualGivenChurchMassCatholicProfoundSymbolsOddPriestsOver ItRitualHostFeedingDomainEucharistExcludedBreastfeeding Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'” BelieveWellsKidsFunCatholicDon't BelieveAtheistCelebrateOur FamilyBelieve In GodRitualCalendarsAdvent Author:Jodie Foster