Catholic Heritage Quotes

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

Some of the greatest achievements ever have been achieved as a result of the Church. The Catholic Church. I'm not Catholic but yeah, the Church, for instance, you take a walk through the Vatican, and to your right is the double helix staircase built, I think, in 1138 or something.

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'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

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

My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

I came from a very conservative Catholic family.

When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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