Catholic Clergy

Famous quotes containing the words catholic and/or clergy:

    “Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
    —Erica Jong (b. 1942)

    “To impose celibacy on such a large body as the clergy of the Catholic Church is not to forbid it to have wives but to order it to be content with the wives of others.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)