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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. -- Madonna Ciccone
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. -- Cass Sunstein
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. -- Pat Buchanan
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. -- Paul Farmer
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. -- Gabe Newell
I can't bear Catholicism. -- George Michael
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! -- Robert Browning
Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality. -- Antonia White
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism. -- John Guare
Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity. -- Tim Crane
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right. -- Matthew Kelly
My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. -- Julian Fellowes
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. -- Richard Hofstadter
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven. -- Pope Pius X
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. -- Thomas Fuller
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. -- Thomas Aquinas
We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism. -- Charb
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I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. -- Peter Singer
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. -- Paul Farmer
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. -- Rose of Lima
The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. -- Al Goldstein
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. -- Samantha Morton
Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar. -- Bill Maher
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism. -- Chino Moreno
Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart. -- Louis Auguste Blanqui
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary. -- Pope Pius IX
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas. -- Alexander Herzen
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains. -- George Bernard Shaw
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. -- Julianna Baggott
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. -- Charles Dickens
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. -- Emile Zola
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. -- Thomas Keneally
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). -- Tim Crane
I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. One -- Tom Spanbauer
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. -- Tim Crane
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life. -- Joan Van Ark
I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that. -- Dean Koontz
The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S. -- Park Chan-wook
I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism. -- Jeff Ament
If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism. -- Garry Kasparov
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. -- Lenny Bruce
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church. -- Martin Sheen
I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God. -- Dominic Savio
I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. -- Brian Eno
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. -- Margaret Atwood
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock. -- Marcus Brigstocke
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"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. -- Jim Gaffigan
Itâ??s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world. -- Kiki Smith
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle. -- Dennis Kucinich
Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh. -- Robert Barron
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. -- Camille Paglia
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. It's a continual hokey-pokey. -- Douglas Carter Beane
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 -- C. S. Lewis
If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option. -- Pope Francis
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile. -- Rich Mullins
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile. -- Rich Mullins
What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism. -- Israel Zolli
I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life. -- Rob Lowe
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
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want. -- Tom Clancy
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music. -- Conor McPherson
Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out. -- Fareed Zakaria
There's Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there's Feminism and Hedonism, and there's Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me. -- Tony Hoagland
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict. -- Harri Holkeri
Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be. -- Matthew Kelly
I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get. -- John Banville
I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are. -- Glen Duncan
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. -- John Adams
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. -- Ralph Fiennes
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted. -- Tony Abbott
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted -- Tony Abbott
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present. -- Oscar Hijuelos
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism. -- Jerry Saltz
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her. -- Tim Kaine
Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. -- Marilyn Manson
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul. -- Paul Bloom
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment. -- Grimes
How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive. -- Margaret Fuller
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. -- Robert Vaughn
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue. -- Barack Obama
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine. -- Richard Dooling
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. -- Edith Stein
The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of Jesus that it finds at once its lay and its religious consecration. -- Kadmi Cohen
People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go. -- Christopher Brookmyre
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature? -- Madonna Ciccone
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones. -- Pope Francis
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken. -- Lynda Resnick
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. -- Fulton J. Sheen
My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much. -- Catherine Hicks
I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic. -- Camille Paglia
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states. -- Yulia Tymoshenko
Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing. -- Madonna Ciccone
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church. -- Garry Wills
Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred. -- Henry de Montherlant
Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism. -- Bertrand Russell
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit. -- Bill McCartney
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution. -- Andrew Greeley
What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation. -- Kevin Hart
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma. -- St. Vincent
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. -- George Meyer
I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are. -- Vincent Nichols
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches. -- Rachel Cusk

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