The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
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Related Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny... ROBIN MORGAN The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. ROBERT H. SCHULLER Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, e... BROOKE SHIELDS What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't s... KELLYANNE CONWAY The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries ... JACK KEROUAC considered a valid ministry within the Roman Catholic Church. CATHERINE KELLY I'm not sure the Catholic population necessarily goes along with everything that comes down from on ... IRA MEHLMAN 1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of ... THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever ... BROOKE SHIELDS The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church. H.G. WELLS MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Because they are having full power in many places, and especially at the national level, they are ab... CARDINAL ZEN I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu... H.G. WELLS The five pro-abortion public officials highlighting today's 20th anniversary luncheon for Emily's Li... JUDIE BROWN The five pro-abortion public officials highlighting today's 20th anniversary luncheon for Emily's Li... JUDIE BROWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations... ALBERT EINSTEIN You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represe... CHARLES TUPPER The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces... URSULA K. LEGUIN There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left ... ROBERT SARAH If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperati... CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the chur... MARCO RUBIO In the Roman Catholic Church, by centuries-old tradition Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, this year fal... IGOR KOVALEVSKY After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the... KAREN DECROW But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ... ROBERT SARAH If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic... ANNA QUINDLEN The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in thi... FLORENCE KELLEY The Word of God and the doctrinal teaching of the Church are still heard, but souls that desire to t... ROBERT SARAH Celebrating Mass facing east, by breaking up the face-to-face, private get-together, helps to preven... ROBERT SARAH The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their deb... SUZANNE FIELDS We are in very good relationships with the present pope, Benedict XVI, and I'm in the very happy pos... ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centu... LANCE MORROW While women need the right to birth control and abortion, we also need to be able to have and raise ... JOHN ASHCROFT And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It's not anti-Catholic to question, nor is it anti-Catholic to be honest about the previous shor... DONNA BRAZILE The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission ... ANNIE BESANT As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and disp... CHERIE BLAIR Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Tre... NORMAN GEISLER She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished
vigour, when some traveller from Ne... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed, there is less temptation for the celebrant to m... ROBERT SARAH The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of ... PATTY MURRAY Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key deli... NEWT GINGRICH It was sponsored by several what you would call 'lapsed Catholic politicians' who have become very h... BRIAN CAMENKER Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. ALLEN GINSBERG In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy an... KATHA POLLITT Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different p... JAMES CARVILLE In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic... STACEY D'ERASMO The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven. NEALE DONALD WALSCH Birth unites women in the power of oneness; the extraordinary gift we deeply share as mothers. Belly... MAHA AL MUSA It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's ... CLINT EASTWOOD As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. DAN SIMMONS I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek chur... THOMAS PAINE I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek chur... THOMAS PAINE Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, l... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. JOHN NELSON DARBY Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is... ALEX GIBNEY Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control... ANDREW CARNEGIE The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would ... COLM TOIBIN No religious organization must be allowed to impose its biased views on the rest of us about what th... BERNARD KATZ Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blo... LOUIS MACNEICE Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have... ROBERT SARAH So many different kinds of religious groups found this bill a bit troubling, so it may or not be tha... NANCY AMMERMAN They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic ... HUTTON GIBSON We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do it... THERESA MAY The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's t... JANET FITCH In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My hom... GENE LUEN YANG Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The mo... ROBERT SARAH The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new ... ROBERT CASEY Abortion is an intrinsic evil that is always wrong. The Catholic Church clearly teaches this. Theref... JUDIE BROWN Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; an... RICHARD STALLMAN The catholic church is like time,they are both very consistent. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized. BILLY CORGAN It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Man... CHARLES TUPPER If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Chur... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA There's evidence that women may switch methods of birth control or stop using the pill because they ... LAUREEN LOPEZ They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, the... GINGER BAKER Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been... FRANCESCA ANNIS Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal... ROBERT SARAH It's interesting. There is a concern for Catholic values outside of the Church, but not within the C... BARBARA BLAINE I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl... CHERIE BLAIR The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not direc... MAYA ANGELOU Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence... WILLIAM GODWIN Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequenc... WILLIAM GODWIN I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice. NANCY REAGAN A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for hol... POPE BENEDICT XVI The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. SAMORA MACHEL There are two kinds of males - men who stand up for women's rights & cowards. The choice is your... ABAIDA MAHMOOD Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable... J.D. SALINGER The Catholic Church, as all churches, is exactly like General Motors. Instead of making and selling ... BOBBY W. MILLER Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues... JESSICA VALENTI The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. BERTRAND RUSSELL The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter... GABRIEL BYRNE The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they cou... WILLIAM FRIEDKIN I think the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church have done a lot to change people's int... ROBERT WEXLER At the heart of Galatians 2 is not an abstract individualized salvation, but a common meal. Paul doe... N.T. WRIGHT I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a ... BERNHARD LANGER The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives o... ROBERT CASEY The Church, though, has always held up a mirror in which society can see reflected some of its uglie... MICHAEL COREN
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