Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives.… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a… — Ralph Martin Copy Share Image
No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then… — David Cross Copy Share Image
My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with… — nwaocha ogechukwu Copy Share Image
The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si,"… — Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo Copy Share Image
Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got… — Ralph Martin Copy Share Image
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we… — Carlos Celdran Copy Share Image
Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian,… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Pope Francis is calling for a better way to hold together complicated family lives in the midst of official church teaching without… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being. — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
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