Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never… — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord.… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there… — St. Paul Copy Share Image
The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism:… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius… — Christopher Duggan Copy Share Image
“Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the… — Hyam Maccoby Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering… — Saint John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
The processes of secularization that followed in the wake of the Reformation continue to work themselves out in complicated ways, not only… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
That's what the liveliest parts of the world Church today - ranging from the booming Church in Africa to FOCUS missionaries on… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been… — John Ricard Copy Share Image
“Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God… — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
“In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Why does the bishop give those confirmed a slight blow on the cheek? To remind them that like Christ and the Apostles,… — Leonard Goffiné Copy Share Image
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“There is no need for particular speech in order to be with God. We have only to be quiet and to contemplate… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
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