Catholic Upbringing Quotes

I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom gave me my moral code which, even if I was bad, I wasn't bad for very long. If you're born and raised Catholic, it stays with you a lifetime. It's a good thing to have. My dad gave me a very professional attitude to the music business, and for that I thank them 100%.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

I was raised as a Catholic. I went to a Jesuit school - obviously, being from Ireland, was brought up in quite a regimented belief structure. I shed a lot of that rigidity and got a sense that there are definitely forces that we don't understand. I think 'magic.' It's a word to apply to some of those things.