“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.” HomeKidsGrewGrew UpCatholicViolentTraditionalLotteryParentalCatholic Family Author:Dennis Lehane
“The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.” StillsRealityDifficultViewsAcceptingSawsJudgingScientistCatholicAcceptedCirclesTraditionalEstablishmentSurprisingOrthodoxySolar System Author:Michael Coren
“With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.” HelpingGovernmentChristianValuesBeliefReligiousGroupsLandBuiltPressureCatholicFinalsJewTraditionalAliensBigotryTheologianFrontiersForefathersCountercultureBeliefs And ValuesPressure Groups Author:Cal Thomas
“Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.” WorldChurchIgnorancePrejudiceCatholicInstitutionsComplexesTraditionalIntimateCatholic ChurchPrestigeRoman CatholicEntanglementRoman Catholic ChurchIgnorance And Prejudice Book:Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church Source: Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church
“I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.” HomeCareAgeMotherGuyParentWonderfulPrideGrewGayGrew UpDiedCatholicConservativeTraditionalOld AgeHealth CareNeighborhoodFloatsParadesOhioGay Pride Author:Gail Collins
“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
“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