The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left and right, so as to… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It may seem somewhat ironic that the Catholic Church finds itself advocating the same position against abortion as its severest Christian critics,… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it? — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies… — Herbert W. Armstrong Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
