Crown Quote by Jim Carroll

I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your…

— Richard Jeni

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

— Chuck Panozzo

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

— Bruce Springsteen

The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you…

— Bruce Springsteen

My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I…

— Catherine Hicks

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in…

— Stephen J. Dubner

I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't…

— George Saunders

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe…

— Mary McCarthy

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath…

— Anne Lamott

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

— Gunter Grass

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Over the years I've had strong friendships with many priests. As a matter of fact, a group of Christian leaders from the National Council…

— Dave Brubeck