Catholic Church Quotes - Page 8

• During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

  Ross Douthat

  Years, Catholic, Church

  "A Time for Contrition". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have understood that they could not cleave to Jesus Christ as the Head of the Church if they did not belong to the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. Nor could they ever hope to possess in all its purity the faith of Jesus Christ if they were to reject its legitimate teaching authority entrusted to Peter and his successors.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Catholic, Church, Bishops

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• Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Religious, Air, Years

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• Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

  Pope Pius IX

  Catholic, Church, Passing Away

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• The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Tired, Catholic, Church

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• I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Believe

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• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  Harri Holkeri

  Catholic, Church, Problem

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• Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

  Pope Francis

  Differences, Catholic, Unity

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• In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

  Peter Mullan

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshipping God. And whether it's a Sikh temple, or a Baptist church, or a Catholic church, or a Muslim mosque - whatever it is - I just abhor this kind of violence, and it's the kind of thing that we should do something about.

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Hate, Expression

  "Pat Robertson Links 'Hate' of God to Wis. Sikh Temple Shooting" by Katherine Weber, www.christianpost.com. August 06, 2012.

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• I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Thinking, Catholic

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• Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Character, People, Catholic

  "Salazar: speeches, notes, reports, theses, articles and interviews, 1909-1955: Anthology" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Editorial Vanguarda, (p. 212), 1955.

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• My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church.

  Leonid Feodorov

  Country, Believe, Years

  "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity" by Francis McCullagh, (p. 238), 1924.

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• If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Catholic, Church, Hierarchy

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• Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

  Honore de Balzac

  Catholic, Sublime, Church

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• Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

  Peter Mullan

  Catholic, Church, Connections

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• The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.

  Pat Condell

  Long, Hatred, Catholic

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Let's Blame The Jews", www.youtube.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

  Ilka Chase

  Mother, Baby, Bores You

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• Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

  Tom Lehrer

  Religious, People, Catholic

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Mean, Catholic, Church

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• When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Catholic, Religion

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• In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Determination, Children, Ignorance

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• I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Organization, People

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• In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

  Penny Lernoux

  Numbers, People, Catholic

  "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.

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