“My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been d...” — Natascha McElhone Quote

“My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.”

“I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.”

“The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.”

“I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.”

“I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.”