The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy. — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals)… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Another reason these opponents find it difficult to comprehend the Papacy is a perspective, inherited from the Protestant Reformation, that is essentially… — Stephen K. Ray Copy Share Image
“By the presence of the Papacy, mind, conscience, heart, were blasted; while ignorance, superstition, iniquity, increased and prevailed.” — Various Copy Share Image
“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,… — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is… — Christopher A. Ferrara Copy Share Image
And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
[When the Gospel seems to be interpreted in different ways] is the obvious challenge, perhaps even danger, here. By its very nature… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius… — Christopher Duggan Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“After an injunction had been judicially intimated to me by this Holy Office, to the effect that I must altogether abandon the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
![“[When the Gospel seems to be interpreted in different ways] is the obvious challenge, perhaps even danger, here. By its very nature as a custodial office, the papacy can't be a Rorschach test, into which people read whatever they like - whatever they fear or hope for.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c4/george-weigel-9372_challenges_when-the-gospel-seems-to-be-interpreted_2763265.jpg)
