Character Quote by John A. Hardon

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply…

— H.L. Mencken

“It is impossible to be just to the Catholic Church. The moment men cease to pull against it they feel a tug towards it.…

— Anonymous

“Nay, if we should suppose, what never happens, that a popular religion were found, in which it was expressly declared, that nothing but morality…

— David Hume

“By the presence of the Papacy, mind, conscience, heart, were blasted; while ignorance, superstition, iniquity, increased and prevailed.”

— Various

“Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.”

— Yann Martel

“Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith.…

— John Heubusch

Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread and unchallenged…

— John Shelby Spong

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist…

— Anonymous

“...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to…

— Christopher West

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts…

— Bertrand Russell

“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be…

— Ronald A. Knox