they got to be so conceited because they were Catholics.

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the…

— Penn Jillette

I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this…

— Sarah Bolger

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their…

— Garry Wills

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

— James Nesbitt

There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin…

— Rodney Stark

Beware of bad Catholics.

— Saint Augustine

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

— David Novak

“The parishioners looked dazed, but happy. The only thing good Catholics love more than God is a short service. Keep your organ music, your…

— Dennis Lehane

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed…

— Richard Rohr

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

— Robert Vaughn

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

— Pope Pius IX

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

— Salma Hayek

“They were Catholic, my lovers, All in an access of crossing themselves, Particularly their fingers Behind their suspendered backs-- And that was the women.”

— Shay Caroline

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali