“Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.” ThinkingAbleWantedPleaseMy FamilyCatholicUniversityPriestsCatholic Education Author:Danny Pudi
“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.” MenMadeReasonBornClassMorningChildhoodMiddleTerribleMassAreasNegativeCatholicSlaveRaisedSevenUniversityHeavyClockMiddle ClassCatholicismChicagoEvery MorningUpbringingBorn And Raised Author:Chaka Khan
“To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.” FirstsCatholicUniversity Author:Susan Sarandon
“By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the more I studied about the Bible and how it came about, the more I lost my faith.” AmericaLostCatholicLeavingUniversityPriestsNun Author:Susan Sarandon
“I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?” KnowsMy FamilyCatholicUniversityAlcoholismSt PatrickSt Patrick's Day Author:Jim Gaffigan
“In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.” WayIdeasRealityBoysFocusMysteryLateDecidedCatholicUniversityPhysicsContemplatingTeensAnother WayDiscussingPriesthoodSeminaryBelfast Author:Stephen Curry
“The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.” MenMindHumansStatesWholeSpiritReligionChurchDoubtPeriodsDiseaseIntellectualEuropeCatholicIndependenceGuiltEndureUniversityBrokeHuman MindShrinksRevivalMonasteriesEnquiryFree ThoughtAscendancy Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky
“More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.” KnowsWayYearsBelievePersonsHardBornIgnoranceWorshipSittingCatholicFinalsUniversityTheologyDiscussionDo You KnowClassroomTwelveMisunderstandingHard WayDoctoratesRetorts Author:John Corapi
“We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.” IssuesCatholicUniversityDiscussion Author:William P. Leahy