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I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church. -- Andres Serrano
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. -- Bill Condon
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
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. -- Pope John XXIII
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist. -- Annie Besant
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies. -- Martin Sheen
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
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church. -- Carl Olson
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. -- Allen Ginsberg
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. -- Saint Augustine
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
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 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
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine. -- Hutton Gibson
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be. -- Fulton J. Sheen
BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community. -- William P. Leahy
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. -- Bernhard Langer
I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. -- Francis Arinze
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie. -- Adolf Hitler
Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church. -- Thomas Aquinas
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. -- Robert H. Schuller
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church. -- Carl Olson
The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception. -- Mario Cuomo
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. -- Richard Morris
Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church. -- Pope Pius IX
I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church. -- Matthew Scully
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
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
You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days. -- Charles Tupper
Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created. -- Chris Smith
I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another. -- Kitty Kelley
My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. -- Madonna Ciccone
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church -- Ignatius of Antioch
The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired! -- Pope Benedict XVI
You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church. -- Indro Montanelli
Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality. -- Jodi Picoult
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction -- Dan Simmons
He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever. -- John of Damascus
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The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal. -- David Letterman
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church. -- Thomas E. Woods Jr.
I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church. -- Bill Maher
Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back. -- Janine di Giovanni
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty. -- Tim Kaine
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. -- Kenneth Clark
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. -- Alex Gibney
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. -- Robert Bly
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. -- Oscar Wilde
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am. -- Gene Luen Yang
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. -- Dana Gould
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced. -- David LaChapelle
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. -- Alice McDermott
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA . -- Aleister Crowley
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. -- Matthew Fox
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom. -- Chris Matthews
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. -- Bertrand Russell
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
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease. -- Malgorzata Szumowska
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. -- David Brooks
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart. -- Michael T. Flynn
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church. -- Katie Holmes
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
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 Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion -- Robin Morgan
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
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
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I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago. -- Mick Farren
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
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
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
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
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
(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the priesthood -- Andrew Greeley
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally. -- Nancy Gibbs
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
For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck. -- Ann Hood
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
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
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? -- Newt Gingrich
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all. -- Hilaire Belloc
The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people. -- Adolf Hitler
I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church. -- John McGahern
I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers. -- Peter Jurasik
Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed -- Oliver Cromwell
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business. -- John F. Kennedy
That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists. -- L. M. Boyd
Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach. -- Pope Pius IX
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh. -- Maureen Howard
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, â??the Church which presides in charity?, is communion with the Orthodox Churches. -- Pope Francis
Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious. -- Ian Kershaw
When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right. -- Dorothy Day
That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger. -- Mary Gauthier
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. -- Camille Paglia
At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment. -- Tina Fey
Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter. -- Hippolytus of Rome
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. -- Galileo Galilei
The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus. -- Peter Sagal
I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages. -- Gabriel Byrne
I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths. -- Marco Rubio
Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments. -- Sylvia Poggioli
Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. -- H. G. Wells
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species. -- Julian Jaynes
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own. -- Susan Jacoby
The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong. -- Alex Gibney
I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s. -- Margaret Cho
I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it. -- Bill Maher
I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking. -- Paul Kantner
Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us. -- Denis Leary

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