Century Quote by Joseph McCabe

And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than…

— Thomas Hobbes

“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter,…

— Thomas Hobbes

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt…

— George Agnew Reid

“BECAUSE CATHOLICISM IS TRUE, The papacy was established by Christ, has endured, and retains the authority entrusted to it by Christ, even to this…

— Tim Staples

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no…

— Lord Acton

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

— Various

I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far enough in…

— Ross Douthat

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time…

— Rob Sheffield

“I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur'd. From whence I concluded, (as I told…

— William Stephens

Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all…

— Jane Austen

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

— Edward Gibbon