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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 am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. — Meghan O'Rourke

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes. — Joyce Johnson

Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no. — Pope Francis

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews. — Tom Lehrer

Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. — Diana Gabaldon

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception — Christa Wolf

Humiliation is so essential to Catholics. And to faggots! — Larry Kramer

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop. — John Sandford

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. — Phil Donahue

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved — Conor Oberst

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. — Martin Sheen

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. — Gary Bauer

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie — Diana Gabaldon

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe. — Dwight Longenecker

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. — Tony Abbott

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.' — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it. — Elayne Boosler

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we - in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? — Yann Martel

Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals! — George Carlin

he'll make Catholics of us, — Frank McCourt

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it. — W. H. Auden

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans. — Pat Robertson

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics. — Woody Allen

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state. — Meir Soloveichik

I believe people ought to mate for life ... like pigeons or Catholics. — Woody Allen

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church. — Pope Pius IX

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants. — James Larkin

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics. — Joe Biden

Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic. — J.D. Salinger

My parents were Belfast Catholics. — Pete Hamill

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems. — Richard Morris

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He — James A. Michener

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me. — Simon Callow

Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good. — Samir Selmanovic

St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey. — Margot Leitman

If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics. — John C. Wright

It is a mark of Henry's own unique religious opinions that he was able to persecute both Protestants and Catholics. The — Elizabeth Norton

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. — Diane Lane

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. — Alice McDermott

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions. — John Catsimatidis

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules. — Penn Jillette

Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates. — Bob Casey Jr.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. — Sargent Shriver

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even. — Cindy Sherman

Even catholics have hail marys. Jews only have guilt. — Matthue Roth

Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion. — Pope Francis

We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass. — George Patterson

I'll quote from Ecclesiastes to the Catholics, from the Koran to the Muslims, from the Torah to the Jews, from Aristotle to the atheists. — Paulo Coelho

I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them. — Frank O'Connor

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven. — Neale Donald Walsch

He said Catholics probably had an advantage, you could hedge your bets right until you were dying. — Alice Munro

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper — Evelyn Waugh

We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion. — Yann Martel

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. — Harvey Cox

Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another ... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve. — Adolf Hitler

unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants. — The Boston Globe

Let Catholics build their own churches and works. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong. — Jim Gaffigan

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. — Morrissey

Beware of bad Catholics. — Saint Augustine

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. — David Novak

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. — Anne Rice

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point. — Peter Watts

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. — Carlos Fuentes

You can't trust those damn Catholics. — Gordon Gee

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. — Lord George Gordon

Do Catholics really go to hell if they eat meat on Fridays? Eddie asked, fascinated, — Stephen King

And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better. — Hilary Mantel

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway. — PZ Myers

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes. — Alfred Hitchcock

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide. — Todd Akin

Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily. — Yann Martel

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. — Robert Vaughn

Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God's love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity! — Roma Downey

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' — James Nesbitt

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. — Oscar Niemeyer

We are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose. — David Levithan

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics? — William Blum

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics. — Pope Pius V

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. — Jose Bergamin

I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics. — John Catsimatidis

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church. — Pope Shenouda III

I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201) — Mev Puleo

Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture. — Richard K. Morgan

Bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
Or form a Piss Club where we all go
in the bushes and peek at each other's sex. — Anne Sexton

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man. — Jean Shepherd

All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls. — Bo Burnham

They got to be so conceited because they were Catholics. — Anne Lamott

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ... — Bernadette Devlin

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence. — Salma Hayek

Moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage. — Isabel Allende

Today, former Catholics - most of them white and relatively young - make up 15 percent of the total adult population.45 — Robert P. Jones

As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages. — Scott Hahn

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics. — Buddy Hackett