Church Quote by Francis Arinze

“Many feel that the church (if it’s necessary at all) is primarily intended to serve our individual spiritual needs or to group us together…

— Tish Harrison Warren

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear,…

— Pope Francis

“There is an important distinction between what is necessary to the being of a church, and what is necessary to its well-being” (55).”

— Ryan M. McGraw

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that…

— Pope Francis

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the…

— Lance Morrow

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

— Pope John XXIII

The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a New Evangelization,…

— Ralph Martin

“The category of validity allows for ecclesiastical lines to be crossed, even if there is no communion between ecclesial bodies. It allows Rome to…

— Andrew Stephen Damick

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

“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is to act…

— Christopher A. Ferrara

My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass during the…

— Anthea Butler