A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.
I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U. S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U. S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.
I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.
I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.
I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.
The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.
You cannot be in love with love.
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.
The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.
The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila. . . . . great stuff.
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.