Unfortunately, the Church’s position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously. – Andres Serrano
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything. – Charlie Puth
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. – Anne Lamott
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I’d be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn’t. – Chuck Feeney
‘Hallelujah’ is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It’s one of those really, really special songs. – Brandi Carlile
For reasons I can’t remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church’s beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck. – Ann Hood
I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries. – Anderson Paak
It’s very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world. – Angelo Scola
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong. – Arlen Specter
Ultimately Warhol’s private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. – Allen Ginsberg
I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there. – Alain de Botton
Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school. – Ann Hood
‘Phantom of the Opera’ started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence. – Ashley Jensen
I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks. – Aretha Franklin
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. – Arthur Middleton
I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. – Christopher Hitchens
I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I’m like, ‘I’m going to get in trouble.’ – Craig Robinson
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England. – A. N. Wilson
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. – Anne Lamott
I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
