I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.
If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish
I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
I was a careless Protestant, my wife was a good Catholic, and we had six kids in seven years and I'd endorse that to everyone.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
