I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
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If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever "Christian" today happen to believe and p...
The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small grou...
To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we are to think about ...
There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man’s personal responsibili...
In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee that the accused received a fair trial and the right of defence. This was the foundation of the Inquisition, and it was a ...
A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, "Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the fountain of truth. Some comm...
Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture” of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus o...
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.
Catholic, Episcopalian, I won’t have sects with you.
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
