quotes about Catholicism
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Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.
-- Antonia WhiteSource : Antonia White (1980). “Frost in May”
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Love God, serve God; everything is in that.
-- Clare of Assisi -
The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
-- Edith Stein -
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
-- Emile Zola -
My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.
-- Julian FellowesSource : "My family values". Interview with Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.
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The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
-- Matthew Kelly -
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We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
-- Oscar Romero -
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
-- Pat Buchanan -
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
-- Paul Farmer -
He loved us personally...centuries before we were born.
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
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Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
-- Pope Benedict XVISource : Pope Benedict XVI (2010). “Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass”, p.25, Ignatius Press
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
-- Pope Leo XIII -
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I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.
-- Pope Pius IX -
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
-- Pope Pius X -
Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down.
-- Pope Stephen I -
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Anti-Catholicism has always been the ***** of the Puritan.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
-- Robert Browning -
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-- Samantha MortonSource : "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.
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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
-- Therese of Lisieux -
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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
-- William Levada -
There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.
-- Woody Allen