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It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time…

— Rob Sheffield

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing…

— Peter Mullan

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has…

— Julian Jaynes

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

— H. P. Lovecraft

We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.

— Greg Boyle

More pro-active Vatican communications might be able to do something about all this, but when the Holy See is constantly in the mode of,…

— George Weigel

It was like an audience with the Pope.

— Ricky Gervais

The world has a truly historic pope in Francis.

— Betsy Hodges

I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of…

— Joy-Ann Reid

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been…

— Horst Koehler

We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch…

— Richard Rohr

When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his vision and…

— George Weigel