It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything
I was still rooting for Notre Dame. It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.
We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.
The world is perfect the way it is.
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do. . . if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.