You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like,… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faithful God, help me to trust in you during times of disappointment and disillusion. I want to believe you are working in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
“The non-Christian secular power, even if it have no religion at all, is an evil, it is of the devil, and it… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
“Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Does the reader realise the despair that falls upon the hapless Catholic journalist at such moments; or how wild a prayer he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for… — Allen R. Hunt Copy Share Image
“It stated that Rome tolerates, in her relation with the Russian Uniats, "strange heresies and even bearded and wedded clergy." In that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not… — Karen L. King Copy Share Image
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates… — Allen R. Hunt Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I trust you, God. I want to believe you are with me. When others choose to abandon or betray me, help me… — Psalm 55 Copy Share Image
If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last… — Pope Martin I Copy Share Image
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
