“I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.” BelieveLongValuesI BelieveChurchAwarenessInvolvedTasksCatholicMatureExpertise Author:Pope Francis
“There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.” ThinkingChildrenValuesFatherParentNaturalWonderfulFineUniqueCatholicConservativeTendenciesLabelsSocialistCricketers Author:Richard Dawkins
“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.” TryingHardJobsReligionValuesCoursesCommunityLeadershipWorkCitiesFamilyComedyHuman NaturePolicyNew YorkGayEthicsCatholicStrategyNew York CitySexuallyCardinalsFamily ValuesMeccaCatholic Family Author:Stephen Colbert
“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
“We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymen’s efforts to lead them astray.” KnowsValuesJusticeEffortCompassionCatholicMajorityDespiteHostInclusionClergymen Author:Mary E. Hunt
“To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.” WorldChildrenSchoolValuesParentChurchMy OwnCatholicSafetyInstitutionsDecentHave FaithCatholic SchoolGood In The World Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.” IfsThinkingWellsLooksMightValuesChurchActivityConscienceCatholicBeing TrueConform Author:Francis George
“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
“I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.” WorldNeedsBelieveCareValuesChurchCommonPovertyFocusEqualCatholicAgreeRaisedMissionsAround The WorldDisagreeThreadCatholic ChurchCommon ThreadsAgree To Disagree Author:Melinda Gates
“In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.” ThinkingI CanRunningValuesPresidentTermViewsCatholicClintonBackgroundsPlus Author:Tim Kaine
“There will always be situations in which conflicts arise between individual and communal values - Catholic police officers deployed to enable women to enter abortion clinics without harassment and doctors who oppose performing abortions. No social role is free of such potential conflicts.” ValuesIndividualSituationConflictPoliceCatholicPerformingAbortionDoctor WhoPolice OfficerHarassment Author:John Kleinig
“We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.” NeedsDoeMovingDesireValuesChristChurchEgoHighestAdultsCatholicGuidesMatureCatholicismTrendsTidesDictatorshipNoveltyFlocksRelativism Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.” ValuesFallMistakeDemocracyVoteCatholicDemocraticProcedures Author:Pope John Paul II
“The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace.” MeanPersonsHelpingValuesCommunityReligiousSpecialIdentityEssentialsTasksCatholicFundamentalsAcquirePrivilegedGifts Of Life Author:Pope John Paul II
“As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic name and his eternal salvation as he ought to value them. Let no one be deceived by a pretense of honesty. It may seem to some that Freemasons demand nothing that is openly contrary to religion and morality; but, as the whole principle and object of the sect lies in what is vicious and criminal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful” IfsThinkingMenWayMayReasonWholeHelpingSeemsLyingValuesNamesPrinciplesHonestyObjectsOughtMoralityDemandEternalCatholicSalvationCriminalsContraryViciousDeceivedPretenseSectsPredecessorsMasonic Book:A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII
“Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.” PersonsMomentsAgeLife IsValuesExistenceRightsBirthCatholicSignificantDeniedValue Of LifeRight To LifeSignificant Moments Book:The Encyclicals of John Paul II Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II
“I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.” ValuesOne ThingTaughtCatholicBackgrounds Author:Terry Eagleton