Pope Quotes - Page 21

• Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, Real, War

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14 (Catherine Morland)

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• As Pope Francis says in Amoris laetitia, pastors must "make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations. We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them" (no. 37). As for the former statement, we should only be afraid if the church is smaller because of our failure to welcome people and preach the Gospel in a way that touches their hearts.

  John I. Jenkins

  Heart, People, Faithful

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

  Elaine Stritch

  Believe, Thinking, Infallibility

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• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.

  Graham Chapman

  Two, Weapons, Surprise

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• Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Should Have, Spirituality

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Rio De Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 22, 2013.

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• Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

  Lady Gregory

  Queens, Body, Loyal

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.528, eBookIt.com

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• My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Missing, World, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated, unlike what is happening now with our all-talk-no-action politicians.

  Donald Trump

  Promise, President, Politician

  "Huckabee: Unprecedented for a pope to weigh in on election". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2016.

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• All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Landscape Painting, Said

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.99, Granta Books

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

  Frank Herbert

  Church, Holiness, Ends

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• I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

  John Henry Newman

  Firsts, Drink, Please

  Letter to the Duke of Norfolk

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• When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his priests repeatedly molested, abused and/or raped young children for decades, and he did nothing to stop it. How much does God believe the pope's argument that Vatican PR trumps pedophilia? Joe Ratzinger, 82, will soon find out.

  Mark Morford

  Children, Believe, Doe

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, People, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

  Laura Moriarty

  Baby, Giving, Needs

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• The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Queens, Kissing, Feet

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• Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Wine, Water, Broken

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• The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Mentor, Frogs

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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• This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

  Tina Fey

  Queens, Levels, Egomania

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• The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Suicide, Catholic, Church

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.118, Penguin

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• Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, War, Men

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.87

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• Trump has always talked about how important in dealing with foreign leaders, how important it is to establish a good personal relationship very close to what Pope Francis says, so they may both really want to emphasize their development of a personal relationship.

  Tom Gjelten

  Leader, Important, Good Person

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

  George Weigel

  Vocabulary, Political, Argentina

  Source: eppc.org

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• In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Father, Lasts, Speak

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Men, Principles, New Life

  Source: zenit.org

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