Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“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

“Occultism has no Pope.”

— Dion Fortune

“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One realizes that everything about the world that seems so unexceptional and drearily predictable is in fact charged with an immense and imponderable mystery.…

— David Bentley Hart

Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope…

— Angelo Bagnasco

“This man was the pope, president, and god of dodging the topic. Too bad for him he was dealing with the queen, holy mother,…

— Nicole Williams

“The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because it so…

— H. Rider Haggard

“I often think that perhaps it is a pleasant thing for the unwitting to reside in the knowledge of the unknown, for I feel…

— Trinity Vinton

"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where I'd start.

— George Weigel

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also… But a Catholic…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins