Catholic Quote by Paul Rust

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

— Matthew Fox

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

— Cristela Alonzo

Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I…

— Hozier

For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.

— Hozier

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

— Sebastian Lelio

“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.”

— Timothy Shah

I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing…

— Chaka Khan

I was raised Catholic.

— Tom Shadyac

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with…

— Martin Donovan

“That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.”

— Joanne Harris

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

— Danny Masterson