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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
— James Carville
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.
— Donald Wuerl
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I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years ... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.
— Cindy Sheehan
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
— Francis Ford Coppola
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
— Kingsley Amis
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
— Janine Di Giovanni
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.
— David Letterman
What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?
— Peter J. Tanous
Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews,
— Howard Zinn
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.
— Maria Mitchell
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
— Peter Mullan
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
— Julianna Baggott
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
— Oscar Wilde
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
— Kate O'Brien
I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
— Gabriel Byrne
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
— Park Chan-wook
If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!
— Sinead O'Connor
I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
— Lynsey Addario
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
— Michael Coren
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
— Christopher Hitchens
It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.
— Harold J. Laski
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.
— Pope John XXIII
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The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
— Chris Matthews
1862 ... although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
— The Catholic Church
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
— Timothy M. Dolan
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
— Honore De Balzac
(The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There
— Stephen Hawking
Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.
— The Catholic Church
MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
— Charles Bukowski
Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.
— Ignatius Of Antioch
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.
— Alex Gibney
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
— Saint Augustine
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
— Kenneth Clark
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
— Pope Pius X
Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.
— Pope Pius IX
The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all
— Ernest Hemingway,
I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.
— Lucia Berlin
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
— Peter Drucker
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
— Shirley Williams
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
— Anna Quindlen
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
— Allen Ginsberg
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
— Robert H. Schuller
I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.
— Pete Postlethwaite
An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.
— G.K. Chesterton
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
— Paulo Coelho
Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.
— Jenny Colgan
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
— Ann Widdecombe
The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews.
— Michel Templet
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
— Flannery O'Connor
Healing infirmities or forgiving sins, Jesus always responds to a prayer offered in faith: Your faith has made you well; go in peace.
— The Catholic Church
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.
— Bertrand Russell
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
— Malgorzata Szumowska
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.
— Albert Einstein
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
— Chuck Feeney
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
— Lance Morrow
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.
— Dolores O'Riordan
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
— Ignatius Of Antioch
As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
— Christopher Buckley
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
— Alice McDermott
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity.
— James Aitken Wylie
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
— Richard Morris
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
— Ignatius Of Antioch
Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.
— Donald Wuerl
He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.
— John Of Damascus
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
— Gunter Grass
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
— Aleister Crowley
I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.
— Bill Maher
