About Quote by Oscar Hijuelos

Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak…

— Julian Assange

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

— Bruce Sterling

The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame…

— Orosius

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

— Scott Hahn

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the…

— Simone Weil

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

— Sanford I. Weill

“I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.”

— Dana Gioia

“Those who complain that Catholicism cannot say anything new, seldom think it necessary to say anything new about Catholicism. As a matter of fact,…

— G.K. Chesterton

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think…

— Abel Ferrara

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

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

— Stephen Hawking

Forgetting the past is forgetting our roots and our basic structure.

— Anonymous