That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to…

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

— Richard Dawkins

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

— Scarlett Moffatt

“A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its…

— Hilary Mantel

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

— Ignatius of Antioch

The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that…

— Rush Limbaugh

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an…

— Edward Gibbon

The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself…

— S. T. Joshi

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my…

— Richard Rohr

It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church…

— Michael Sandel

To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five…

— Chris Matthews

“It may seem somewhat ironic that the Catholic Church finds itself advocating the same position against abortion as its severest Christian critics, the Protestant…

— Jack Holland

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a…

— Stephen Fry

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion…

— Pope Francis

“There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left and right, so as to appear sympathetic.…

— Robert Sarah

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize…

— Susan Jacoby