John McGahern Quotes About Church
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I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.
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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
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Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
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The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.
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