#catholics

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A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.


Frank O'Connor


#religion #schism #religion

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.


John Waters


#catholics #cross #crucifix #jesus #jesus-christ

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.


Don Adams


#awfully #became #been #catholics #church

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.


Pope Benedict XVI


#about #among #applying #catholics #death

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.


Jose Bergamin


#catholics #christ #frequent #ignorance #marx

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.


Phil Donahue


#faith #large #left #loss #many

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.


Mike Ferguson


#catholics #consequence #during #extraordinary #ii

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.


Polly Toynbee


#church #die #done #even #last

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?


Quentin Crisp


#audience #believe #catholics #god #i

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that "Popery" when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.


Lord George Gordon


#been #catholics #dangerous #encouraged #government