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

When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.

Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign,...

…the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new “ethos.

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police...

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.

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). This secret has been...

[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 abandoned...

I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

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.

Players get destroyed. You could say you’re going to draft the pope, and someone would say he’s too old. Draft Santa Claus, and someone would say he wouldn’t fit down the chimney.

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....

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...

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, without a fixed revenue;...

The Pope is not a political figure.

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need...

I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come...

Arab wants to run the football but Pope throws well, especially when they get in the spread offense. We’ve got to stop the run and we’ve got to be mentally ready.

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.

Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons...

For them it’s out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is...

Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono.

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

The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as...

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