Born Quote by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

— Antonia White

I think because of all of the difficulties in Europe with terrorism and stuff, a lot of people ended up going to Portugal. They…

— David Neeleman

I was born and raised Catholic.

— Tom Araya

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

— Tim Crane

“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in the Christian…

— Paul Scalia

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

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their…

— Garry Wills

I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years,…

— Pete Postlethwaite

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and…

— Bertrand Russell

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

— Yann Martel

“Differences between Catholic and Protestant countries did not incite rivalries between European states, or cause the growing sense of national identity and, sometimes, isolationism…

— Fiona MacDonald

My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas.…

— Sonny Sandoval