Back Quote by Janine di Giovanni

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the…

— Shane Claiborne

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

— Pope Pius XI

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a…

— M. Russell Ballard

Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.

— Janine di Giovanni

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

— Janine di Giovanni

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long…

— Janine di Giovanni

The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself…

— S. T. Joshi

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my…

— Richard Rohr

It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church…

— Michael Sandel

To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five…

— Chris Matthews

“It may seem somewhat ironic that the Catholic Church finds itself advocating the same position against abortion as its severest Christian critics, the Protestant…

— Jack Holland

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a…

— Stephen Fry