Catholic Quote by Bruce Springsteen

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

— Gunter Grass

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

— Jacob Lew

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of…

— Jack Kerouac

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's…

— Jim Carroll

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath…

— Anne Lamott

The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers…

— Harry Belafonte

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole…

— Patty Griffin

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

— Scarlett Moffatt

“Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating…

— James Carroll

There's so many gifts from the faith to appreciate and it strikes people differently, but the one-ness of the Church wherever you are, Raleigh,…

— Philip Rivers

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time…

— Rob Sheffield