Counter-reformation Quote by Euan Cameron

“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it all up?…

— Alice Jamieson

“Only hinted at in some of these tales, and clearly stated in others, it is apparent that there was a long and continuing conflict…

— Colin Bord

“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen,…

— Marquis de Lafayette

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism.…

— Linda Blair

“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“After all, the Church had murdered itself, as with every decade more and more depressed dubiousness crept into its synods and convocations, until speaking…

— Will Self

Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms.…

— Anthony Horowitz

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

— Benito Mussolini

“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh)…

— Colin Bord