I was born and raised Catholic.
I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.
My mom is very religious - Catholic - and from a young age they brought me to the church.
No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.
My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.
I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.
I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.
Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.
Being a Catholic in any way is great, but I feel particularly blessed to have served at the altar, where the work of Christ through the priest can be seen up close.
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!
The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.
My means of entry to 'Christianity was singing in a choir. As a boy chorister, I grew up with Ancient and Modern, the evening canticles, versicles and responses, and carols.
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
My family is very traditional, Catholic.
Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.
