Angus Wilson Quotes

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I'm a good Catholic boy.

I do affirm I was never, nor am, a popish Recusant—or popishly affected

The Irish nation is de facto a Catholic nation

I am an Irishman second: I am a Catholic first…. If the [Roman Catholic] hierarchy give me any direction with regard to Catholic social teaching or Catholic moral teaching, I accept without qualification in all respects the reaching of the hierarchy and the church to which I belong.

I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.