National Catholic Church

Famous quotes containing the words catholic church, national, catholic and/or church:

    “The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.”
    —Shirley Williams (b. 1930)

    “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”
    —Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)