Catholic church Quote by James Carroll

“The Roman church’s unmistakable claim is that there is only one church and only one faith and that Christendom needs a visible head, a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Europe has become a post-Christian culture in which the principal religious influence is visible in art treasures and cathedrals filled with tourists rather than…

— Charles W. Colson

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But…

— Allen R. Hunt

“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in the Christian…

— Paul Scalia

“For more than a thousand years this idea of the unity of Christendom, of Christendom as a sort of vast Amphictyony, whose members even…

— H.G. Wells

“Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire.”

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“There is only one church, the church of faith ruled by the word of Jesus Christ alone. This is the true catholic church that…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But Christendom was not merely a community of warriors or even a community of the nobility. It was a civilization! Unfortunately, for generations everyone…

— Rodney Stark

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the…

— Simone Weil

“The history of Italy, and especially of Rome, is intertwined with the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Rome became tied to Christianity in…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around them and…

— Tim Keel