While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
“Motherhood, more than most other types of love, quickly acclimates us to what true love is: an act of the will, not… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Catholicism believes in the Virgen de Guadalupe. The mother of God is worshipped, especially in Latin America. I find her very empowering.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be… — Martin Booth Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but for what lies… — James Burtschaell Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved,… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence -… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.” — Plenary Councils of Baltimore Copy Share Image
“...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God” — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will… — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
“His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that… — Mark K. Shriver Copy Share Image
“He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
