Catholic Quotes - Page 35

• Beware of bad Catholics.

  Saint Augustine

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• I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that - that's not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Teaching, Abortion

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• Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

  Pope Leo XIII

  Opinion, Beloved, Said

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• The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church.

  Daniel De Leon

  Evil, Forever, Church

  Daniel De Leon (1928). “Ultramontanism: Roman Catholic Political Machine in Action”

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• A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says:
  - What is this, a joke?
  - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members.

  C. S. Lewis

  Organization, Bars, Benefits

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• 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

  Spiritual, Struggle, People

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Roots, Evil, Church

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an Anglican or a Roman Catholic. They already take it for granted that being a "believer" is more important than having a denominational name-tag any day of the week.

  Tom Harpur

  Real, Names, People

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• Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Eight, Government, Practice

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• You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

  Indro Montanelli

  Jesus, Giving, Church

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• It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

  Barbara Steele

  Beautiful, Dark, Italian

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• I have to say, as much I am respectful of people's faith and the idea of it being necessary for them, but when it comes to the Catholic church as an organization I don't have one scintilla of compassion, understanding, anything. I just think they're the most heinous, corrupt, separatingly vile organization that's ever been on the planet.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, Compassion, Organization

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• We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.

  Amy Ziering

  Military, Church, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

  Vera Farmiga

  Holiday, Holy Days, Important

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest.

  Jens Spahn

  Home, Mind, Church

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Religious, Latin, Long Ago

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

  Mark Shields

  Gay, College, White

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• It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Differences, Government, Guy

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• I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Children, Years

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• I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

  Kurt Braunohler

  Grew Up, Priests, Wanted

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• 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

  Ignorance, Church, Prejudice

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.155, Book Tree

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• Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

  Patrick Madrid

  Sainthood, Confession

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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Consistency

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• 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

  Latin, Church, Hocus Pocus

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