#catholic

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love. ↗

— Anne Rice

#catholic #christian #had #i #i wish

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#christian #going #may #should #thing

I just try to be the best Catholic. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#catholic #i #just #try

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been concealed by the church for centuries after Christ. ↗

— Nwaocha Ogechukwu

#christianity #church #cross #crucifix #pope

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#catholic church #church #kitsch #moral #private

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#family #grew #i #old-fashioned #philly

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. ↗

— Bil Keane

#catholic #drawing #events #found #got

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

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#box #candles #catholic #catholic church #church