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It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was…

— Ann Dowd

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to…

— Mark Ruffalo

“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and…

— Tony Campolo

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back,…

— Melissa Leo

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who…

— Anna Quindlen

“It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to…

— Gary Smith

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

— Darynda Jones

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is…

— Christopher Dawson

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch