Religion
- Charles Coughlin (1891–1979), priest and radio personality.
- John Christie Holland (1882–1954), In 1924, became an ordained Minister and served as Pastor of Hamilton's Stewart Memorial Church. The church has been designated a historic site by the Ontario government because its solid history and connection to the Underground Railroad. In 1953 he was honoured as Citizen of the Year in Hamilton, the first African Canadian to be given that recognition.
- Bishop Joseph Francis Ryan, Bishop of Hamilton for 36 years, appointed by Pope John XXIII as assistant to the pontifical throne. Bishop Ryan's many priorities included securing the best possible education for Catholic students. Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School is named in his honour.
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“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)
“The only human beings I have thoroughly admired and respected in the world have been those who carried the load of the world with a smile, and who, in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me clean out, never showed a tremor. Such men and women end by owning us, soul and body, and our allegiance can never be shaken. We are only too glad to be owned. Religion is nothing but this.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)