Andrew Greeley Quotes

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

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.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day-this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.

I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than they are today. 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.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.