Brothers Quote by Janine di Giovanni

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was…

— Ann Dowd

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests…

— Chris Sullivan

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous…

— Bruce Springsteen

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

— Sofia Vergara

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I…

— Pope Francis

My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at…

— Jim Starlin

By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the…

— Susan Sarandon

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

— Antony Gormley

“Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom. My first…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

— Marina Warner

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo