Catholic Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

“The Roman Catholic Church has historically taught that, as an element of penance and evidence of true repentance, the Christian must confess all his…

— Archibald Alexander Hodge

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

— Linda Cardellini

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

— Rocco Buttiglione

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

— Billy Connolly

“I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than…

— Marc Acito

“Sin can’t be forgiven because it is not an act; you can only be forgiven for the sins you commit, not for a heredity.…

— Oswald Chambers

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as…

— Terry Wogan

“Anyone who has not consciously and deliberately rejected Christ and the Catholic Church can still be saved. In other words, besides the formal members…

— Consumer Dummies

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not…

— Saint Augustine