In a 1979 interview, Graham Greene answered the question of whether he went to Communion still:

No, I’ve broken the rules. They are rules I respect, so I haven’t been to Communion now for nearly thirty years….In my private life, my situation is not regular. If I went to Communion, I would have to confess and make promises. I prefer to excommunicate myself…. There’s a difference between believe and faith….Faith is above belief. One can say that it’s a gift of God, which belief is not. Belief is founded on reason. On the whole I keep my faith while enduring long periods of disbelief. At such moments I shrug my shoulders and tell myself I’m wrong—as though a brilliant mathematician had come and told me that the solution of an equation was wrong. My faith remains in the background, but it remains.

Roger Ebert on Scorcese:

I have often thought that many of Scorsese's critics and admirers do not realize how deeply the Catholic Church of pre-Vatican II could burrow into the subconscious, or in how many ways Scorsese is a Catholic director. This movie is like an examination of conscience, when you stay up all night trying to figure out a way to tell the priest: I know I done wrong, but, oh, Father, what else was I gonna do?

Eliot, "Chorus from the Rock":

And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls."