The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing…

“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is to act…

— Christopher A. Ferrara

[When the Gospel seems to be interpreted in different ways] is the obvious challenge, perhaps even danger, here. By its very nature as a…

— George Weigel

“Another reason these opponents find it difficult to comprehend the Papacy is a perspective, inherited from the Protestant Reformation, that is essentially anti-sacramental, anti-mediational,…

— Stephen K. Ray

“By the presence of the Papacy, mind, conscience, heart, were blasted; while ignorance, superstition, iniquity, increased and prevailed.”

— Various

“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius XI –…

— Christopher Duggan

“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter,…

— Thomas Hobbes

“After an injunction had been judicially intimated to me by this Holy Office, to the effect that I must altogether abandon the false opinion…

— Galileo Galilei

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

— Pope Leo X

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

— Pope Francis

And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than…

— Thomas Hobbes

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to…

— Joseph McCabe

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

— Avro Manhattan

“God has given us the Papacy,” the thirty-seven-year-old pope is said to have written to his brother Giuliano soon after his accession, “now let…

— John Julius Norwich

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

— Irving Babbitt

But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's…

— George Weigel