488 Quotes About Catholicism

In Catholicism, the Pint, the Pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your skirt rather than, say, the depth of your penitential observance

A homogenous, hand-picked congregation where people are mutually conformable in all their minor social ways is agreeable. It makes parish life smoother. But to require such conformity is entirely un-Catholic; it is contrary not only to the spirit of the Catholic Church in general, but to the tradition of the Catholic Church in the United States.

Do you have or have had a Red Button at your back, within your parish, and you are trapped? Lay red buttons throughout. Then all will have no doubt. There are evildoers about.

A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.

To Lucy Snowe, 'Romanism' is 'a great mixed image of gold and clay', and the latter quality is particularly evident in the bartering deals where material comforts and peace of mind are acquired at the expense of spiritual liberty. The horrors of this exchange are articulated with a warmth which springs directly from the hatred of oppression that informs all the Bronte novels.

Each seminarian is the protagonist of his own formation ... and is called to a journey of ongoing growth in the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral areas, taking into account his own personal and family background. Seminarians are likewise responsible for establishing and maintaining a climate of formation that is consistent with the values of the Gospel.

Let's face it, if what you do is good, then you have God's blessing anyway. And if what you do is bad, then a priest's blessing isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference

The spiritual life goes through alternating phases in which God successively shows and hides himself, makes himself heard and is quiet. Prayer teaches us the subtleties of divine speech. Is God being silent, or are we not hearing him because our interior ear and our intellect are not accustomed to his language? The fruit of silence is learning to discern his voice, even though it always keeps its mystery.