Hans Kung Quotes

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

I can't bear Catholicism.

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

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

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

I was raised in the church.

I was born and raised Catholic.

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

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

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

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

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

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.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

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

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

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

I am a Catholic.

Religious scholars, marginalized by modernization, seek to assert their own relevance by insisting on orthodoxy.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.