Believe Quote by Jaclyn Moriarty

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

— A.C. Grayling

Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods…

— Mary Gordon

One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II, most of…

— Gavin Friday

The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a…

— Roisin Murphy

“In the summer of 2007, I was sitting in a studio in Dublin, debating with a lay spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church who…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a…

— Conor McPherson

It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“The arrival of Christianity in Ireland brought with it the painful disconnection from the earth that still resonates today. Until then, people lived in…

— Mary Reynolds

Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now…

— Nancy Pelosi

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as…

— Thomas Cahill