Matthew Scully Quotes

I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

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

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

I can't bear Catholicism.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

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.

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

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

It a heresy to deny that the stars are brought out by God from his treasure-house and hung in the sky every evening; any other view is false to the Catholic faith.

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church - and still don't to this day.

I had a wonderful experience being Catholic.

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

I was born and raised Catholic.

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.