Authority Quote by David Tracy

“The Vatican has a reputation for secrecy and intrigue. If I have my way, that will cease. But in any large organization there are…

— Glenn Meade

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in…

— Godfried Danneels

We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

— Charlie Sheen

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

I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.

— Blase J. Cupich

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

— Ed Stoppard

“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— George Carlin

“This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no…

— Lord Acton

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

— Grover Cleveland

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

— John Ruskin