There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
Franky Four Fingers: So the Biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for "young woman" into the Greek word for "virgin," which was a pretty easy mistake to make, since there is only a subtle difference in the spelling. But back then it was th...
Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
The purpose of the local church is not primarily to be one's church home or extended family, though it can be at times. And it is not to survive by obtaining more people for its support base. Its purpose is to invite people to be part of the true mis...
{ } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at me. I realised something dreadful about them. They were thrusting an incredib...
The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
