Catholic Woman Quotes

#1. It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

H.L. Mencken

#2. We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children's service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother - a working woman, dependent on her help - feared the maid.

Edith Hahn Beer

#3. I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Mev Puleo

#4. Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

Pope John Paul II

#5. Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Honore De Balzac

#6. In the Eucharist a communion takes place that corresponds to the union of man and woman in marriage. Just as they become "one flesh", so in Communion we all become "one spirit", one person, with Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI