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I'm the daughter of a Kenyan Catholic father and a Mauritian Hindu mother, and I have a Jewish husband who was born in South Africa.
With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine.
My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
When I was a player back in the 80s, Rangers didn't sign Catholic players. There was an enquiry when Graeme Souness took over about me going to Rangers. At the time I was told I couldn't do that.
I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.
My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.
I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.
Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.
In the Catholic schools, they spend much less money than the public schools, and they get amazing results. Private schools spend much more money than the public schools, and they get remarkable results.
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.
My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas. I saw a radical transformation in my family when they started going to a Christian church. I watched them fall in love with God.
You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.
I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.
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