Quotes About Papal

For black Catholics, the papal visit is a time of anticipation but also a time of reflection on their difficult - but important - place within the Catholic Church in America.

I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority.

The heroic efforts and successes of the Reformers on the Continent, in the presence of Papal bulls and inquisitions, were a trumpet call to independence to the people of this priest-cursed land; and many responded right nobly, ready to stand amid the faggots at the stake rather than bear the iron heel that bruised them.

Budd Schulberg was a social democrat; his discovery through Pete Corridan of the labor-friendly papal social encyclicals transformed his outlook, as it did that of many others—including Catholics—who were unaware that the church possessed a semi-progressive social teaching.

Papal timidity becomes ever more blatantly despicable.

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

If the Hindu story exhibits its "god of gods" in such a degrading light, how much more honouring is the Papal story to the Son of the Blessed, when it represents Him as needing to be pacified by His mother exposing to Him "the breasts that He has sucked." All this is done only to exalt the Mother, as more gracious and more compassionate than her glorious Son.

In Papal Italy, as travellers universally admit (except where the Gospel has recently entered), all appearance of worshipping the King Eternal and Invisible is almost extinct, while the Mother and the Child are the grand objects of worship

Her foreboding about the effects of the papal bull had turned out to be tragically accurate. Puritans could now gleefully point to Catholics as a danger to national security. Intolerance had gained a pretext.

Both treaties assumed that the Catholic Church had the final say over the matter

The only common feature of the three successful Reformations was their rejection of papal authority; otherwise they were quite at odds.

He raised his right hand and with a papal cross he blessed the beach from the high terrace.

Urbi et orbi [To the city and to the world].

Hence we judge the papal sacraments to be frivolous, since in them the voice of God is not heard for the upbuilding of souls.

The accepted version of his life story provides the world with something it apparently needs: the perfect example of papal decadence.

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.

Therefore there is one body and one head of this one and only church, namely Christ and Christ's vicar, Peter and Peter's successor." Pope Boniface VIII had written this three years earlier in 1302, and it was that claim of papal sovereignty over Christendom that was the source of all the trouble.

His successors Benedict XII and Clement VI built in stages the great papal palace at Avignon on a rock overlooking the Rhône, a huge and inharmonious mass of roofs and towers without coherent design.

Reporters, in the hope of eliciting a witticism, were always asking him for comments on the news of the day. They were not always successful. Asked to comment on a Papal message, he replied, "The overpowering unimportance of this makes me speechless." Asked what was the greatest problem confronting the American people, he replied, "How to dodge a bicycle.

The wealth of Venice and Genoa was made in trade with infidels of Syria and Egypt despite papal prohibition.

This new religion had its own doctrine and theologies, with the logic of the market and its "efficient market theory" supplanting papal infallibility as the new North Star.

He hauled in Michelangelo, commanding the aged maestro to make the naked figures in The Last Judgment "suitable" for the papal chapel. Michelangelo hotly replied: "Let His Holiness make the world a more suitable place, and then the painting will follow suit." That was the last time Buonarroti had anything to do with Carafa.

people would flock to the churches to mingle, to hear a sermon from a talented popular orator, and to enjoy the latest artwork. Religious ceremonies of the era were anything but brief. A mass, especially a papal one, could last for hours.

Indeed, no sultan or Muslim ruler in Islamic history ever kneeled to ask forgiveness before a grand mufti in the way that Henry IV was forced to do before the pope in 1077 in Canossa for challenging papal authority on some key secular matters. Henry VIII of England had to break with Rome entirely simply to secure the divorce he sought from his wife. Thus, intimate linkage between religious and state power marked most of Christian history in a way that has had no parallel in Islam.