America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.
I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they will make provisions for the sick and the poor. Air will be rationed by a privatized bureaucracy and only those who...
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone
Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.
I'm proud to be a Mick, even though I'm not Irish My middle name is Mickey, though. Actually, I’m lying.
I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
