Carl Olson Quotes

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.

I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and - you know, and now we're going in there every other day baptizing a kid.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.