Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in the three “only's” should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of...
I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.
I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
The heart of the difference between cheap-grace doctrines of guilt-free existence and the Christian gospel is this: Modern chauvinism desperately avoids the message of guilt by treating it as a regrettable symptom. Christianity listens to the message...
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother ...
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don'...
Measure your guilt, then stretch your legs.
I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.
I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
