Pope Quotes - Page 19

• For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

  Hans Kung

  People, Role Models, Roles

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

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• In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

  Hans Kung

  Views, Years, Community

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

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• The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'

  Christopher West

  Sex, Divorce, Cutting

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• Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Husband, Home, Son

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Character, Opportunity

  "Nicolas Cage has some thoughts on the state of modern film criticism" by William Hughes, www.avclub.com. August 14, 2015.

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• A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Cat

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• Wouldn't it have been weird to go to high school with the Pope? You know, somebody did, someone's sitting at home, watching TV in Poland, they see the Pope, they think, "That guy was a jerk! He was so mean to me and now he's Pope? I got a swirly from the Pope!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Home, School

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• Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Communication, Church, Trying

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, People, Catholic

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find a regime that oppresses people and hinders progress, both socially and politically.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Government, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Cuba, Citizens

  FaceBook post by Marco Rubio from Sep 21, 2015

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• I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Opportunity

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Zero, Moving

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• What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.

  John Adams

  Christian, Book, Order

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.479

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• The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Oil

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Australia, Perfection

  1922 Letter, 28 May.

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• Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

  Conan O'Brien

  Atheist, Heaven, Religion

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• If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

  Pope Pius IX

  Catholic, Teach, Contrary

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• Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

  Timothy Egan

  Art, Jobs, Moving

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• Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

  Rajneesh

  Reality, Church, Doctrine

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• A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Would Be, Crisis

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• What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Issues, Community, Political

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Mean, Thinking, Leader

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• There are a lot days where I don't know if God exists. There are a lot of days where I think the leadership of the Church is wacky, a lot of days where I really doubt why I am a part of this thing. But, down deep, I know it to be true. Down deep, I know how much I love it and that's what sort of gets me through. The churches are the pope, and its priests and its mystery and everything. I just sort of like the whole thing.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Doubt, Church

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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