Quotes About Pope

Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.

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.

Lots of paintings have hidden messages," said Clara. "Even the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted an angel essentially giving the pope the finger.

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

Ellos fueron preparados para ganar y conquistar el mundo, y establecer un milenio para el papa. Entre bastidores, los jesuitas controlaban la Gestapo. Todos estos datos estan totalmente documentados en LA HISTORIA SECRETA DE LOS JESUITAS,

I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: "You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine."

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.

even a pope who tried to free the Church from feudalism could not free his own mind or government from feudal methods.

Pope Paul IV refused to declare in her favor

A lecture on what's universal by a woman who's never once felt sexual desire. And the Pope, who takes vows of chastity, decides the issue of contraception for millions. The world is crazy!' Garp cried.

Pope Alexander's most fateful decision was taken in 1493, when he made the all-important adjudication between Spain and Portugal over their recent territorial discoveries in Africa and

Only then were the doors of the basilica opened, and the assembled company proceeded in state for prayers at the high altar before going on to Mass in the Sistine Chapel—all except the pope, who, as one of the Venetians explained in his report, "never attended these long services.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

The monk went on to become Pope Gregory the Great,

Cluny was created with the intention that it should be free from lay control, and was answerable only to the pope.

The family is more sacred than the state.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

The election of a Latin American pope should happen sometime in the next hundred years."20