Catholic Culture Quotes

“Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
― Charles A. Coulombe, Puritan's Empire

“A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor.”
― Fulton Sheen

“If Catholic Christianity does not offer a vision of existence that transcends the election cycle, if our redemption is social and our resurrection economic, then it’s time to render everything up to Caesar.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The renewal of the Catholic arts will not come from the Church itself.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays