Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
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.
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.
It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual.
But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such. )For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.
I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.
I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.