Kingdom of god Quote by Ira Stoll

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance…

— Linda Colley

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony…

— Pope Pius XI

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should…

— John F. Kennedy

“This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.”

— Samina Ali

“In the position of tension in which we are, between churchmanship and citizenship, our churchmanship is much freer than if we had better harmony…

— Anthony Bloom

“People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith!”

— Karen Armstrong

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious…

— Fareed Zakaria

All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible,…

— Pope Leo XIII

“That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.”

— Joanne Harris

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's…

— Rosie O'Donnell