The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.
My mind is my own church.
I'm nervous as a whore in church.
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.