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“Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere…

— Mark Twain

“Catholic guilt was a powerful tool,”

— Amy Harmon

“The essence of sainthood is expiation.”

— Rex Stout

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.…

— Oscar Wilde

“So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if…

— Pete Hautman

“And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church…

— Dan Brown

“Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what…

— Dorothy Day

“Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in…

— George Eliot

“result, he’s firmly persuaded that the Catholic Church must always speak its truths to the surrounding culture, without adjusting those teachings to make them…

— Robert E. Barron

“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built…

— Rachel Joyce

“I think that when Lady Tamarind looks at you, she feels as the cathedral might if it suddenly remembered that once it had been…

— Frances Hardinge