Pope Quotes · Page 3

Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

— Pope Innocent III

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

— Chris Matthews

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

— Ilana Mercer

The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.

— Pope Pius V

I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson…

— Bill Maher

God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.

— Pope Francis

The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called…

— Theodore Edgar McCarrick

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

— Paul Kurtz

If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can…

— Pope Francis

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to…

— Peter Ustinov

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything…

— Andrew Schneider

“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

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look…

— Erich Fromm

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a…

— Red Buttons

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,…

— Camille Flammarion

With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah?…

— Shane MacGowan

The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put…

— Rush Limbaugh

[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European…

— Sylvia Poggioli

The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether…

— John Adams

I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole…

— Lord Chesterfield

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

— Jackie Evancho

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

— Larry Ellison

Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a…

— Red Buttons

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

— Willa Cather

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

— Tupac Shakur

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with…

— Viggo Mortensen

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

— Alexander Pope

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

— George Weigel

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

— Pope Gregory XVI

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

— John Henry Newman

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope

— Oscar Wilde

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

— George Carlin

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

— Chris Matthews

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

— Elaine Stritch

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

— Pope Paul VI

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

— Voltaire