67 Quotes About Catholic-church
- Author Thomas Aquinas
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It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
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- Author John LaFarge S.J.
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In our own generation, as never before, there is need to demonstrate that Christianity is capable of bringing mankind into a truly universal society based not on fear and compulsion but on mutual love. To manifest the unitive power of Christian charity we must make faithful use of the means of unity which Christ has provided for His church. Among these the Eucharist holds a place of honor as the supreme source and symbol of Catholic unity.
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- Author John LaFarge S.J.
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The Mass is the re-enactment of the cross’s mighty onslaught upon human differences: the breaking down of the wall of partition. We participate in common, as in one family, in the holy Eucharistic offering. We are united with one another through our union with Jesus Christ in Communion.
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- Author John LaFarge S.J.
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It is anomalous, for instance, that in our big cities we think nothing of living next door, possibly in the same apartment house, to person whose family life is completely reprehensible according to our Catholic or Christian standards, as long as they do not molest us personally. Yet we become acutely disturbed at the presence of a well-bred, educated, law-abiding, neighborly family, merely because of the color of their skin.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions; religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.
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- Author Rudolfo Anaya
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We don’t need the gospels, we need the fiery men who wrote them!
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- Author Hubert Wolf
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In the moral theology of the nineteenth century, kissing with tongues was a mortal sin "in intent and in the deed itself.
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- Author Hilary Mantel
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A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.
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- Author John Tillotson
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For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.
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