Top Pope Quotes

[:]Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the imple...

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow...

Pope Definition

(n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.

(n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.

(n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

(n.) A fish; the ruff.

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, witho...

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are aban...

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solic...

For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus)...

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.Any will do, the rabbi replied in Provençal.Splendid. Latin it is, said Pope Clement.

The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.

I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their plac...

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.

The Pope is often an embarrassment. Each Pope nurses his own foibles and follies, pet truths and pet hates, and all must be accommodated within the seamless seemingly unchanging whole of Catholic Trut...

The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.

Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation... Poverty is often produced by a rejection of...