“Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States.” LooksBookRealStatesRealityAsksNationsReligiousUnitedLibertyUnited StatesFateAtheismCatholicAtheistSizeJewIsraelPositive AtheismProofMinoritiesSpainProtestantsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisReligious FreedomCathedralsPolandReligious LibertyStatutes Author:Paul Blanshard
“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.” WellsChildrenStillsSelfStatesBodyRealityPoliticalChoicesChurchUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleIgnoranceDeterminationCatholicMalesIncludingProfessionMedicalLifestyleAlternativesAbortionDependentMiddle ClassSelf DeterminationDisguiseCatholic ChurchLegislatorsPhysicalityPharmaceuticalVeneerJurists Author:Adrienne Rich
“As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.” PeopleFirstsCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesFirst TimeCatholicPrivilegeWelcomeOur CountryHolinessPope Author:Marco Rubio
“For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.” WorldShouldSaidStatesRememberUnitedUnited StatesExampleCatholicIraqRememberedIllegalPopeImmoralJohn PaulJohn Paul Ii Author:Hugo Chavez
“Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.” ThinkingStatesFoundChallengesChurchUnitedUnited StatesCatholicPressesFascinatedPopeAlliancesCatholic ChurchVigorJohn PaulJohn Paul IiPope John Paul Author:Chris Matthews
“So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.” PeopleStatesAbleWinningUnitedCasesUnited StatesCatholicElectionWestAlsVirginiaProtestantsWest Virginia Author:Geoffrey Cowan
“The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are Catholics, but that is an American religion. One-third of our population is Catholic so that does not have the same impact as Muslims coming into Europe.” DoeHas BeensCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEuropeThirdsCatholicImpactSouthPopulationImmigrantsMexicoSouth America Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” PeopleStatesHateChurchUnitedMillionsUnited StatesHundredCatholicPerceiveCatholic Church Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?” TryingStatesGovernmentPoliticalUnitedPowerfulLibertyUnited StatesEconomicInformationEconomicsCatholicJewExperimentsTyrannyLocalsObjectivesAgencyDestroyingTyrantsFederal GovernmentPolitical PowerExterminationJurisdictionOver 50Government AgenciesPowerful Government Author:Walter E. Williams
“I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.” I CanStatesAmericaReligionBeliefChurchUnitedUnited StatesAtheismCatholicAtheistJewSeparationArticlesUnited States Of AmericaChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateProtestants Author:John F. Kerry
“George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.” FirstsStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCatholic Author:Rick Santorum
“My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.” StatesGirlUnitedUnited StatesMetsCatholicShipsGrandmotherImmigrantsGrandfatherMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherCrossingsThis GirlOverboardCrossing Over Author:Emanuel Celler
“The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.” RealStatesGovernmentChurchUnitedUnited StatesTaxesMembersOfficeStandardsCatholicDuesOilCorporationsBranchesNeighborhoodAssetsEstatesSteelExceedCatholic ChurchState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentRostersStandard Oil Author:Avro Manhattan
“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.” PersonsCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulEthicsCatholicMythologySinnerLatinPuritanSuccessful Person Author:Umberto Eco
“We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.” StatesChurchUnitedLeaderUnited StatesCatholicCommandMexicoEmperorProtestantsHebrewProtectorSanctify Author:Emperor Norton
“Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.” StatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesStudentsResponsibleCatholicIncludingWideBackgroundsRangeEthnic Background Author:Mark Foley
“Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will seek to divert resources from public coffers to fundamentalist school funding. From the madrassa schools of Pakistan to the Christian push for school vouchers in the United States and the religious home school movement, religions seek to control education or to control the resources for education.” IfsStatesHomeSchoolChristianReligionReligiousUnitedUnited StatesMovementKeysResourcesCatholicPakistanFundingVirusesBaptistsTalibanFundamentalistPublic EducationVouchers Author:Darrel Ray