Quotes About Vatican

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose their religious views on others. He was the first Catholic ever elected president, and he spent much of the 1960 campaign defending his religion and assuring voters he would not take orders from the Vatican.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

We will control the land of the Vatican. We will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. —SHEIKH MUHAMMAD BIN ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-ARIFI, Imam of the mosque at the King Fahd Defense Academy

Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth.

The popes who succeeded John XXIII were in clericalism's grip, which is why the reforms of his council didn't have a chance.

who knew John XXIII was so funny? Of course, not all the stories were laugh-out-loud funny. And I had already heard his famous answer to the journalist who asked innocently, "How many people work in the Vatican?" "About half of them," said His Holiness.

December 19, 2:02 A.M. CET Crypts below Vatican City   Rhun lurched up and away. His head smashed against smooth stone. The blow opened a wound on his temple and knocked him back into the scalding bath of wine with a splash. He had awakened like this many times, trapped inside a stone sarcophagus

The sale of indulgences is sometimes regarded as one of the first major waves of capitalist commodification. It certainly laid the basis for all that hoarded wealth in the Vatican. Talk about the commodification of conscience and honor!

How could the Vatican justify taking such a great interest in the Jews, asked Dell'Acqua, when it had not complained about the violence Germany had directed against "Aryan people who have professed the Catholic religion from birth"?

the Vatican's cooperation.

Pope Pius XII was certainly not "Hitler's pope," as John Cornwell's intentionally provocative book title would have it.

It took a lot of nerve, De Vecchi added—broaching a taboo topic—for the archbishop to accuse the Fascists of being savages when at the same time the Vatican expected the government to keep silent about widespread cases of priestly immorality. One of these days, the ambassador warned, the pope would go too far. He would not

To preach conservative heresy — making the rules stricter than they are, distorting doctrines through ignorance or narrowness, denying the Eucharist to those who have a right to receive it — is pretty safe. No one will complain to the bishop. But anyone who leans to the left is in danger of instant denunciation. There is a saying in the Vatican, "The right writes." The left fumes in silence. That is a sin against stewardship.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican.

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

Despite being some of the most powerful people in the world, the top men in the Kremlin were scared of stepping out of line. Marxism-Leninism answered all questions, so the eventual decision would be infallibly correct. Anyone who had argued for a different outcome was therefore revealed to be culpably out of touch with orthodox thinking. Dimka sometimes wondered if it was this bad in the Vatican.

The sensation that seized me that morning?the twentieth of May?as I sat on my velvet cushion beside the Pope and stared down at the man standing beside my husband, was swift, irrevocable, and violent, like a dagger plunged into the heart. I trembled. I did not want it; I did not seek it; yet there it was, and I was at the mercy of it. And I knew nothing of the man who had just stolen my soul.

Kat had already passed for a Franciscan nun during a particularly difficult job in Vatican City).

There are more angel sculptures, figurines, and paintings here than at a Vatican garage sale.

I also regard cocaine as pernicious because most of the profits from the coke industry go to enrich the Mafia, the Vatican and the worst dictators in South America. You can find the documentation to support this charge in David Yallop's In Gods Name, in Penny Lernoux's In Banks We Trust and in my own Everything Is Under Control.