Catholic Traditions Quotes

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head.

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.

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals.

Let me be clear: neither I nor 'Angels & Demons' are anti-Catholic.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

Every first Friday, my father would go to confession, and he took very seriously the faith he would someday transmit to us.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

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

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

I went to Catholic school for the cheapest private education.

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

The churches of the Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists were not open. They do not accept Christmas as a holy day, but the Episcopal, Catholic and German churches were all open and decked with evergreens.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Dallas.

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.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.