Catholic Quote by Anna Quindlen

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

— Anna Quindlen

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a…

— F. F. Bruce

In many churches today the congregation rules the leaders. This sort of government is foreign to the New Testament.

— John Macarthur

“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.”

— Gabriel Chevallier

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

— Ignatius of Antioch

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

— Pope Francis

In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer…

— Pope Pius IX

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

— Steven Wright

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and…

— Sonia Johnson

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

— Jacob Lew

There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the…

— Anne Graham Lotz