“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
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
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien 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
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
“Pere Silas in Villette marshals his forces with considerable skill and subtlety. Although he claims to be momentarily taken aback by the… — Marianne Thormahlen Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“We turn toward the Man Crucified of Jerusalem, toward the Man Crucified of Rome, toward His truth abandoned and betrayed; we say… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
“Why did the Holy Ghost descend on the Jewish Pentecost? Because on their Pentecost the Jews celebrated the anniversary of the giving… — Leonard Goffiné Copy Share Image
“Protestantism and Catholicism must not be compared to Sunnism and Shi'ism in the Islamic context as has been done by certain scholars.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“I asked the earth and it answered, “I am not He”; and all things that are in the earth made the same… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I could not understand why these romancers never took the trouble to find out a few elementary facts about the thing they… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil.… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God, you know my heart even better than I do. This could scare me or it could give m peace- the peace… — Wis 1:6-15 Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
“1883. ...The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should… — Catholic Church Copy Share Image