Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us…

I tend to be very pessimistic and not let myself enjoy things.

— Cole Escola

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

— Various

[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

“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

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

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

— George Weigel

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

“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

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

“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

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

— Irving Babbitt