When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.
"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.
There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
Justice comes before charity.
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.
The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.
