Top Catholic Church Quotes

Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms...

This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic thought which stretched back to the Church Fathers said, in essence, "Looks like there's...

In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate, which was increasingly recognized as unreliable...

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

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