Quotes About Pope Paul VI

The sweep of the hierarchy's betrayals, in scope and depth, is staggeringly new. And to gauge the likelihood of that hierarchy's facing the truth of what it has done and what it has become, consider this: The two contemporary maestros of denial, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, have, in the very years of the scandal they enabled, been named as saints of the Catholic Church.

I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

He met with Pope Paul VI, and they found common ground in their conviction that faith brings meaning to life regardless of the belief system.