“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
Erica Jong
“This Greek idea of dualism is the problem deep down, this thing of having the spiritual on one side and the profane on the other. We are still grappling with this. Spirituality is a plus, sexuality a minus”
Father Mark Montebello
“I remember in Gozo villagers used to say one should have three altars: the Church, the word of God and the matrimonial bed. That showed there was no separation between the physical and the spiritual”
“It’s a pontifex, a bridge to the skies, in fact the Pope himself is called Pontifex Maximus”
“Pope urges end to Syria bloodshed. How about an end to child sex abuse in the Catholic Church?”
Muhammed Haider
“I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.”
Ian Rush
“Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think”
Hester Lynch Thrale
