Quotes About Pope

A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!

In 1738, the Pope issued an encyclical banning all participation in Masonry under threat of excommunication.

Blessed also be God Almighty, who ordains that His militant church shall have such life that, when a pope is dead, she is not on that account without a head or dead! Because not upon the pope but upon the head, Christ, does her life depend.

"Human cloning would not lead to identical souls, because only God can create a soul," a panel set up by Pope John Paul has concluded. They also took care of a couple other things that were burning issues: Apparently, Trix are indeed for kids.

And thus the perplexing spectacle was afforded the Church of one Pope unequivocally charging another with false doctrine. What Nicolas III. and Clement V. had solemnly commended as right and holy, their successor branded, as solemnly, as noxious and wrong. The

Of the three popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim: he fled and was brought back a prisoner: the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy and incest

La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.

By this time, the Julian was already eleven days behind the Gregorian calender. But it was better to be a little late than to agree with the Pope!

More important, however, Henry's book found its mark in Rome. He had long resented the pope's gift of glorious titles to the kings of Spain ("the Catholic King") and France ("the Most Christian King"), while England was left out. Now, finally and after some negotiation, Henry got his prize and became "Defender of the Faith.

Hence, from the mere jingle of words, persons and things essentially different were confounded; and Paganism and Christianity jumbled together, that the towering ambition of a wicked priest might be gratified; and so, to the blinded Christians of the apostasy, the Pope was the representative of Peter the apostle, while to the initiated Pagans, he was only the representative of Peter, the interpreter of their well-known Mysteries

In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII. struck a medal, bearing on the one side his won image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolised as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat.

The resemblance does not stop here. It is only a year or two ago since the Pope presented to his beloved son, Francis Joseph of Austria, a "TOOTH" of "St. Peter," as a mark of his special favour and regard. The teeth of Budda are in equal request among his worshippers.

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Peel'd, patch'd, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers,Grave mummers! sleeveless some, and shirtless others.That once was Britain.

In quibbles angel and archangel join,And God the Father turns a school-divine.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

And grant the bad what happiness they would / One they must want, which is to pass for good.

Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn,   105 Whilst these exalt their sceptres o'er my urn;

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.