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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.

— John McGahern

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

— Alice McDermott

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

— Anne Lamott

Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.

— Regina Doman

I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

— Juanes

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

— Sarah Dessen

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

— John McGahern

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

— Alice McDermott

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

✗Opposing Perspectives

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

— Wesley Clark