The Catholic Church Quotes

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

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys. — Dan Rather

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother. — Cyprian

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality. — Jodi Picoult

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

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

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

The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age — G.K. Chesterton

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. — Umberto Eco

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

If they don't believe what the Church teaches, they're not really Catholic — Charles Chaput

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

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race. — Pope Francis

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign! — Sinead O'Connor

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. — Madonna Ciccone

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church. — Indro Montanelli

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

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

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church. — Andrew Cuomo

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God. — Paulo Coelho

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

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom. — Chris Matthews

(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

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

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. — Alice McDermott

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. — Richard Morris

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA . — Aleister Crowley

The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake. — Doug Stanhope

The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception. — Mario Cuomo

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI

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

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly. — Ed Rendell

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

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

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 am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy. — Albert Einstein

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing. — Rush Limbaugh

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church. — Andres Serrano

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

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. — Flannery O'Connor

The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews. — Michel Templet

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 attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid ... — Dana Gould

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church. — Bill Maher

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

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever. — John Of Damascus

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church — Ignatius Of Antioch

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. — G.K. Chesterton

Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity. — James Aitken Wylie

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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

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

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church. — Ignatius Of Antioch

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being. — Sting

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. — Saint Augustine

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. — Alex Gibney

MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. — Charles Bukowski

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews — John Hagee

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid. — Timothy M. Dolan

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

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

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church. — Carl Olson

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

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

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 is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do. — Jay Leno

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. — Kenneth Clark

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

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 had an awfully good way of handling all — Ernest Hemingway,

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

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church. — H.G.Wells

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church. — Jacob Lew

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. — Samora Machel

Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join. — Mike Golden

The Catholic wisdom of the people ... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life. — The Catholic Church

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers — Harold Macmillan

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back. — Janine Di Giovanni

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000. — Peter J. Tanous

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church. — Christopher West