Quote by Charles Brandt

“freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer.”

— Mary Roach

“His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he managed to answer that no…

— Flannery O'Connor

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 to do.

— Theodore Edgar McCarrick

“See a storm. See a bad spanking. See your boy is ugly. Decide your boy is the pope. Blow the pope away with an…

— Amanda Boyden

“The Pope was such a fine little fella, you know.”

— Louis Armstrong

“When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a…

— Barbara Pym

“Meanwhile, back in the torture room, the cardinal is now being forced to bleed into a chalice and consecrate his own blood, not to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“He stood and he only had one leg. The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance…

— Ray Bradbury

“I heard a story about a critical, negative barber who never had a pleasant thing to say. A salesman came in for a haircut…

— John C. Maxwell

“In which building is the pope?” one woman asked. She was overheard by writer Teresa Dean, who wrote a daily column from the fair.…

— Erik Larson

“The italian nanny was attempting to answer the teachers latest question when the moroccan student interupted, shouting "Excuse me, What is an easter?" it…

— David Sedaris

“Why did the Chicken cross the road? Because he had delusions of Papal grandeur”

— Josh Stern