“The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.” MenReasonChristChurchPracticePlansTeachingExampleAuthorityCatholicFundamentalsSacredConstantScriptureConsistentlyApostlesCatholic ChurchExclusionPriesthoodGod's PlanSacred Scripture Author:Pope Paul VI
“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
“I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.” ThinkingYearsMayDifferentPhilosophyUseSchoolSpiritualChurchMy OwnTeachingBasesCatholicSundayCatholic SchoolSpiritual Teaching Author:Jennifer Lopez
“There's a lot of Republicans who may have in the past been critical of fellow Catholics who they call 'cafeteria Catholics' who don't follow the church's teachings - say, on abortion. But now, are they going to become 'cafeteria Catholics' themselves and not follow the church's teachings on climate change?” MayPastChangeChurchTeachingRepublicanCatholicFellowsClimateClimate ChangeCriticalAbortionCafeteria Author:Bob Inglis
“I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.” I CanBigsStuffChristianityTeachingCatholicJesuit Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that - that's not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.” FirstsCountryChurchTeachingFineVoteCatholicAbortionAcceptableAmendmentsFirst Amendment Author:Patrick Leahy
“Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.” ChildrenHas BeensSchoolValuesNationsParentTeacherTeachingOur ChildrenCatholicParamountInstillCatholic SchoolCatholic Education Author:Joe Baca
“The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."” PlayChristianLawBeliefNationsTeachPsychologyRightsTeachingEqualEthicsClaimsCatholicInstitutionsEqual RightsEvangelicalInstructorsFetishDeist Author:Robert Dabney
“I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.” JesusMoralTeachingCatholicFellowsMovedRaisedDogmaExclusivity Author:Tom Shadyac
“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 know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to become better Jews. Why not?! It just takes us towards more deeply recognizing our original nature, which is what we all share after all.” KnowsUseShareTeachingOriginalsCatholicJewBuddhistPriestsWhy NotRecognizingNun Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.” MeanStillsSchoolTeachingMonthsSixHigh SchoolCatholicQuittingSix MonthsFractionsCatholic School16th Birthday Author:George Carlin
“The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?" - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.” MenTryingMatterMoralTeachingJudgingCircumstancesCatholicResponseEndureNarrativePhrasesPopeSignatures Author:George Weigel
“Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological difference between the official teaching of the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church.” SpiritDifferencesChurchTeachingMovementHugeHolyCatholicHoly SpiritOfficialsStrongestCatholic ChurchTheologicalRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Nicky Gumbel
“If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.” TeachingDivineCatholicSevenAcceptedRevelationsDissent Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don't believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I'm an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can't talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?” ThinkingMenBelieveMeanImportantSometimesChurchTeachingCatholicEducatedCatholicismHave Faith Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have understood that they could not cleave to Jesus Christ as the Head of the Church if they did not belong to the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. Nor could they ever hope to possess in all its purity the faith of Jesus Christ if they were to reject its legitimate teaching authority entrusted to Peter and his successors.” IfsMenHeartBodyJesusChristChurchTeachingAuthorityEternalUnderstoodJesus ChristCatholicSalvationPurityThoughtfulRejectsPeterCravingEternal LifeCatholic ChurchSuccessors Author:Pope Leo XIII
“We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.” BelieveWantedNationsChristTeachingAuthorityCatholicCatholicismApostlesSeville Author:Isidore of Seville
“If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.” IfsTwoWould BeJusticeTeachingExerciseTraditionCatholicDenyScripturePenaltiesPopeDeath PenaltyContradictingRetributive Justice Author:Avery Dulles
“Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.” MenMaySoulEndsBodyCareSpiritualSpiritFatherLordTeachingSonCatholicWorthyTake CareCatholicismCrownsGroundedApostlesBishopsDoingsMan Of GodDeacons Author:Ignatius of Antioch
“In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.” MenTeachingMen And WomenOppositesCatholicAdmireTraditionalCombinationCharacteristics Author:Andrew Greeley
“From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.” LoveGodChristianJesusChristReligiousLordTeachTeachingCrossesCatholicChristian InspirationalBishopsLove One AnotherFollowing JesusChristian Love Author:Pope Francis
“The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.” ChristChurchTeachingCatholicPersist Author:Pope John Paul II
“Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.” MayTeachingCatholic Author:Gregory of Nazianzus
“Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.” HumansHas BeensSaidHappensHuman BeingsMillionsImpossibleTeachingCenturyCatholicMedicalDestroyedBuddhistExpertsMonkTwentieth CenturyUnnaturalAmazing ThingsNunStood UpMost AmazingCelibacyBuddhist Monk Author:Rajneesh
“If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?” IfsGivingReasonFactsShowsReligionJesusChurchStudyDoubtTeachingBenefitsCatholicCarefulWhy NotResurrectionHomosexualCatholic ChurchRejectingContraceptionBenefit Of The DoubtOrdinationLife Teaching Author:Carl E. Olson