“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
“I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.” ThinkingBeliefMysteryChildhoodInformationBenefitsCatholicSymbolsVisualsClueMystery Of Life Author:Robert Gober
“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.” ChildrenChildhoodAbsolutesCatholicNostalgiaPious Author:Sonia Orwell
“bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.” FormGamesSexChildhoodCatholicSticksClubsTongueBikeDowntown Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.” MomentsActionSchoolGuyBrainCrazyChildhoodCatholicRaisedCatholicismHouseholdMedievalAction MovieCatholic School Author:Grimes
“My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.” FirstsTwoAgeSpiritualYoungMy OwnChildhoodCollegeBrotherMomFirst TimeOur ChildrenCatholicMy MomLife ChangingExposedYoung AgeTwo BrothersCatholic Family Author:Matt Cullen
“During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.” IfsYearsIdeasSchoolHellTeacherChildhoodCatholicBeing The BestNutsCatholic School Author:Olof Arnalds
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” LooksCoursesWonderChildhoodOrdinaryCatholicMiserableAshesSurvivedHappy Childhood Author:Frank McCourt