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Fr. John Corapi: Catholic theology

More than once I’ve had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. ‘Oh you Catholics worship images.’ No we don’t, ‘yes you do,’ no we don’t, ‘yes you do,’ no we don’t! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way – by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don’t know anything about it. You’re saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

Fr. John Corapi

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Pope John Paul II: The saints

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.

Pope John Paul II

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G. K. Chesterton: The modern mind will accept nothing on authority

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with “I think I heard somewhere,” or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said “such-and-such,” and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

G. K. Chesterton

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St. Gregory Nazianzen: Different men have different names

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

St. Gregory Nazianzen

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St. Augustine: The Christian should be

The Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot.

St. Augustine

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Hilaire Belloc: I am a Catholic

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!

Hilaire Belloc

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St. Thomas Aquinas: The Church has ever proved indestructible

The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her. In fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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St. Ignatius of Loyola: That which appears white is really black

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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G.K. Chesterton: I am very proud of my religion

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

G.K. Chesterton

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Pope John Paul II: The question confronting the Church

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.

Pope John Paul II

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