“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
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” HeartHumanityPassionPeaceTraditionCatholicLipsCarefulBe CarefulBeing At PeacePeace And HarmonyPeaceful WorldProclaimingAchieving PeacePeace Of HeartPeace HarmonyFranciscans Author:Francis of Assisi
“Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.” YearsLittlesLightWaitingMorningTreeSweetTraditionMy FamilyCatholicDecoratingChristmas Morning Author:Malaika Arora Khan
“We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.” EndsNationsCommonPolicyElementsTraditionPrejudiceCatholicSpotsRememberedAspirationProtestantsScotchVibrate Author:Wilfrid Laurier
“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.” HumansDoeDifferentChurchViewsMoralPositionTraditionCatholicHuman LifeCatholic ChurchMandatesEmbryosPersonhoodDevelopmentalJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.” FirstsChristianTermChurchCenturyEnlightenmentFirst TimeCapacityTraditionCatholicSplitsReformationProtestantsChristian FaithUnifiedChristian ChurchProtestant Reformation Author:John Shelby Spong
“It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsMatterTodayChurchHigherGratitudeTraditionCatholicHelpfulCatholic ChurchHigher PowerPlaces To GoPresbyterians Author:Lisa Rinna
“I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.” ChildrenImportantChristianMotherFatherSocialBornGrewGrew UpTraditionCatholicWestEightGroundedInvolvementMother And FatherCatholic FamilyBelfast Author:Mairead Corrigan
“I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].” LittlesMotherGrowing UpTakenGrowingBrotherDadFindingsTraditionCatholicMy DadPriestsStrictDualityFinding God Author:David LaChapelle
“On areas like abortion where there is major disagreement among the mainstream religious groups in the Judeo-Christian tradition, I believe that requires a lot more caution. The Jewish position on abortion is very different from the Roman Catholic position. That is reason to be cautious about enacting laws rather than saying to the religious group: instruct your followers on these matters as matters of personal religious belief.” BelieveDifferentReasonBeliefI BelieveReligiousTraditionCatholicAbortionCautionDisagreementCautiousReligious BeliefRoman CatholicBe Cautious Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.” SchoolStrongPresidentChurchMoralBoysConscienceTraditionCatholicCatholicismVery StrongCatholic School Author:Bruce Babbitt
“The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.” ReasonActionTraditionCatholicObjectivesRevelationsNormGoverningRight Action Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.” BelieveDoeChurchTraditionCatholicSalvationCatholic ChurchUnbelievers Author:John of Damascus
“The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?” IfsMenSaidWholeChurchPrinciplesTreeTraditionLogicCatholicGood ThingsApplesBranchesCatholicismCatholic ChurchTrue ReligionApple TreesCatholic Religion Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“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
“We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.” KindMeanTwoMotherFatherBornViewsExampleBandMembersTraditionEnglandCatholicUnityRaisedIrelandProtestantsNorthern Ireland Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.