Quotes About Vatican

Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican.

The Vatican City has a much higher crime rate than any other world capital. In 2006, there were more crimes reported than there are citizens; this is of course due to the huge number of tourists visiting the Holy See, and the majority of the crimes are of course not committed by its inhabitants.

A fin de conquistar el mundo para el catolicismo romano, el Vaticano formo y financio la maquinaria de guerra de Hitler y los jesuitas prepararon secretamente la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hitler, Mussolini y Franco serian los defensores de la fe.

THOMAS EDISON HAILED HIM AS THE "GENIUS OF THE MODERN age"; Gandhi, as a "superman." Winston Churchill pledged to stand by him in his "struggle against the bestial appetites of Leninism." Newspapers in Rome, host to the Vatican, referred to him as "the incarnation of God." In the end, people who had worshipped his every move hung his corpse upside down next to his mistress's near a gas station in Milan.

fascination that made Vatican Council II appeal to Conor as catnip

El día en que esta Santa Sede se sujete a la nueva Europa de diplomáticos y políticos, a la Europa centrada en Bruselas y París, aquel día comenzarán realmente los infortunios de la Iglesia

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

The Vatican even today, under the popular Pope Francis, continues to prevaricate as it says that bishops should report abuse…if the law requires it. This year, the Italian bishops disclosed that they will not report clergy abuse to the authorities, because Italy does not require it. The Vatican knows full well that the law often does not require clergy to report, because its own bishops lobby to ensure it doesn't!

The Vatican remained the crossroads in the plot to kill Hitler: all roads truly led to Rome, to the desk with a simple crucifix overlooking the fountains on St. Peter's Square.

know that for centuries Catholic priests were allowed to be married? It was the First Lateran Council that changed that in the twelfth century. When there was pushback from the clergy, the Vatican began arresting and killing the wives. Some were even sold into slavery. To avoid this happening to their loved ones, the priests accepted the new rules. In a gracious touch, the surviving wives were allowed to be considered widows by the pope rather than divorcées.

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked

Romano Pontífice, guárdate de acercarte A la ciudad regada por dos ríos: Tu sangre vendrá allí cerca a esputar, Cuando florezca la rosa, tú y los tuyos.

The fact that the Vatican has its own banking system proves that money is not the root of all evil.

Are you saying the Vatican only sent one agent to stop the end of the world?" I said. DuPont's face took on a look of mock shock. "Heavens, no. They sent two of us. Same as the DMA.

The contents included a lengthy interview with Monsignor Corrado Balducci. Two things became obvious from the clergyman's answers to Paola's questions. He was well versed in the subject; and although he was speaking as an individual, and not as an official Vatican spokesman, his superiors were well aware that he was speaking with their full knowledge, at least, if not their unofficial blessing.

Paola Harris: Is it a grave mistake to think that you are the official voice of the Vatican? Monsignor Balducci: 'These ideas are mine, and I do not represent the Vatican. However, I am told that the Holy Father, John Paul II, has seen me on Italian TV several times and follows my radio homilies. If there were some objection, I'm sure I would know. I believe there to be no problem here.