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I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

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

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

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.

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.