The Good Catholic Quotes

Victor: [Father Ollie enters wearing an Indiana basketball jersey over his robe]Come on, come on!
Ollie: What, brother?
Victor: Well, even the Franciscans had, had some rules about this!
Ollie: Let me check, Father. [opens the Bible and reads]
Ollie: And cometh game day, 'tis okay to go forth in the colors of thine chosen team unless thine chosen team is the Purdue Boilermakers or the Kentucky Wildcats. God is good.

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Daniel: I'm not going anywhere.
Jane: Yeah, well, you're not the one I'm worried about. I'm not crazy, in case you were wondering. I mean yeah, but no, not really. It started off as a joke. But just saying it, I'm dying, finite. It gave things a sense of urgency and sometimes it doesn't work. Well, most of the time. But there are days, if I really let myself buy into it, I can actually see the beauty of how little time we really have. And lately, that only seems to be happening, when I'm with you.

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Jane: I get it. But in different circumstances we're totally dating right now.
Daniel: No, no, I... no.
Jane: Wow Father, you really know how to make a girl feel special.
Daniel: No, I mean, this, uh, isn't, we're... I, I'm not... you know.
Jane: No, I don't. But I'd be happy to provide feedback if you feel compelled to articulate an entire thought.
Daniel: I am committed to God. That means that any, um, emotional connection, that is... other than friendship, which, which is what I think that we have... friendship. You know a really strong... But anything more than that is obviously not allowed. I mean, it goes against everything, uh, everything, ha ha, that I am, so...
Jane: How do you ever expect to get laid if you keep saying that kind of stuff?... That was a joke, relax.
Daniel: Well, you're probably going to hell because of it, so I really hope it was worth it.
Jane: [look of shock and disbelief]
Daniel: I really can't tell jokes can I.

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Ollie: [sitting in a car with Daniel after giving a dead man last rites]We don't realize how lucky we are to do this for a living.
Daniel: What, priests?
Ollie: Humans.

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Victor: [Choir practice, starts singing Amazing Grace with Father Ollie, then breaks into a rap version]There's a descent case for blasphemy here.

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Victor: What's going on here? What is it?
Daniel: I met someone.
Victor: You met someone.
Daniel: Yes.
Victor: What does that mean?
Daniel: A person. I met a person. There was a person, and I met her.
Victor: Her?
Daniel: Yes.
Victor: Hmm. I see. So it wasn't just someone you met. You... you met her. A... female someone.
Daniel: I didn't do anything Father.
Victor: No one said you did.
Daniel: Because I didn't.
Victor: Okay.
Daniel: So it doesn't matter if it was a female someone or a her if I didn't do anything, which I didn't, so it doesn't... matter.
Victor: Great.
Daniel: Terrific.
Victor: Glory be. [starts walking away]
Daniel: I didn't do anything Father.
Victor: Well, that's between you and God now isn't it.

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Ollie: You gotta find something of your own, something selfish, or stupid and... human. Otherwise, you might wind up like Victor.
Daniel: What's wrong with that?
Ollie: He wears his collar to Target. I mean he literally puts on his collar to buy Honey Nut Cheerios and toilet paper.

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Jane: You did really sell the whole humorless, stodgy priest thing there.
Daniel: Yeah, we work on it in seminary, for years, that and thurible swinging.
Jane: Thurible swinging?
Daniel: Yeah.
Jane: Sounds dirty.
Daniel: Uh, well, uh...
Jane: Sorry. It's late, you're cute, I'm human.
Daniel: Can I ask you a question?
Jane: Maybe,
Jane: The whole dying thing...
Jane: No.
Daniel: What?
Jane: Let's not.
Daniel: Come on.
Jane: You've got your off limits, you know, stuff, so do I.
Daniel: Well we both know that you're not...
Jane: Daniel.
Daniel: I mean you don't even look sick, like, at all!
Jane: It's late, I should go inside.
Daniel: Jane...
Jane: Thanks for walking me home.
Daniel: I didn't mean to... It's just... I don't know why we have to keep up with this, you know, charade.
Jane: Charade?
Daniel: No, that's not what I mean to... I just mean... you don't, I mean you look...
Jane: How?
Daniel: What?
Jane: How do I look?
Daniel: Well no, I just...
Jane: I don't look, frail... [walking towards him, getting closer, while he's backing up]
Jane: helpless? I seem a bit, too healthy? Well, I guess that's a testament to my formidable spirit. [whispering in his ear]
Jane: Good night, friend. [kisses him on the cheek]
Jane: .
Daniel: [left to himself, thinking, stunned. voice over of a man singing Amazing Grace]

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