John Adams Quotes

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

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.