(84 quotes found)
“The Pope? How many divisions has he got?”
Joseph Stalin
“I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist”
Martin Luther
“He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer”
William Proxmire
“I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.”
Madonna
“Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.”
Voltaire
“Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest”
Edward Gibbon
“After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith, and that also applies to the liturgy. It is not "manufactured" by the authorities. Even the pope can only be a humble servant of its lawful development and abiding integrity and identity. . . . The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition. . . . The greatness of the liturgy depends - we shall have to repeat this frequently - on its unspontaneity.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“While the Pope owns 51% of General Motors And the stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us”
George Harrison
“From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.”
Albert Camus
