Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“I refuse to share the thoughts of the ordinary. I am the outsider not because they expelled me but because I expelled… — Mark Romel Copy Share Image
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
To put it a little crudely, these days nobody is afraid of excommunication. If they decide they don't want to be Catholic… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image